Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 187
any of your readers ever saw a taller piece.Your devoted reader, Annie B. Briggs (age 13). This is among the very tallest. Britton andBrowns Illustrated Flora, in a long list ofvarieties of goldenrod, mentions only four asexceeding this. One of these is described as one to seven and a half feet ;… … THE WOODCOCK. tween the birds called woodcocks and those calledsnipes? I have been told that snipe is only anothername for a woodcock ; indeed, all the farmers near hereassure me of the fact (?): but still I am not satisfied.My belief is that the snipe is a different bird but of thesame family or…
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