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Identifier: outing51newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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rel? Neither, forrabbits stay on the ground and squirrelsdo not climb anything as slender as witchhazel. It was a bird, probably some vireoor thrush. Mow do I know the thicket iswitch hazel? Why should I not? Themost noticeable scent in the fragrance ofthe woods which the morning sun is steep-ing is the smell of witch hazel. Did you hear the swish of a bough as itsprang back to its accustomed place? Thatwas a squirrel. He likes to jump from thebranches of one tree to another, making hisway through the woods without touchinghis dainty feet to Mother Earth. You didnot see him? Wait till he sees you andwhat a scolding and barking he will setup because you have invaded his privatedomains. Listen! Now he is clatteringaway like a small fury. The jay will hearhim and shout the news from his tree-top:Look out, two men in the woods—stillsitting under the old pine. The jay is abusy tell-tale, and he has saved many agame bird in his time by his warnings. The more abstruse problems of wood- 345
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Outdoor Men and Women 347 craft most interest me. I do not muchcare whether the red squirrel makes abusiness of eating partridges eggs, oroccasionally robs a nest for sport. I amnot certain whether the woodpeckers nestis always on the east side of the tree, butthe birds and squirrels in their song andchatter I do know and find delight in. Iknow the songs and calls and cries of alarmof about sixty birds, including ten gamebirds. One can construct a rare woodlandorchestra with that number of pieces, es-pecially when all are singing different parts. The call of the cuckoo and the quailwhen rain threatens, the flocking of songbirds and the flight of water-fowl, and theplaces of these events in the human calen-dar, the muskrat and the wild gooseweather prognostications; these are prob-lems which meet the naturalist and appealto the poets imagination. I can neverforget one glimpse I had of the great south-ward procession when 1 was a boy, andbefore my sight was taken from me. Itwas in the m

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