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Other Natural History Essays
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Went
a-chestnutting this afternoon to Smith's wood-lot near the Turnpike.
Carried four ladies. I raked. We got six and a half quarts, the ground
being bare and the leaves not frozen. The fourth remarkably mild day. I
found thirty-five chestnuts in a little pile under the end
of a stick under the leaves, near - within a foot of - what I should
call a gallery of a meadow mouse. These galleries were quite common as
I raked. There was no nest nor apparent cavity about this store. Aunt
M. found another with sixteen in it..
1853
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