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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 339

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grouse has rested awhile in the snow and left the imprint of breastand tail. This is the time to find the snow caveswhere these birds spend the cold nights when thesnow is deep. Coming to the big woods we find the tracks ofred squirrels and rabbits most abundant. Nowlook for the more rare trails of… … RUFFED GROUSE AND ITS SUNNING OR RESTING PLACE. Showing where the grouse sat down a few minutes to rest or to sun himself and then flew away brushing the snow with the tips of his wings as lie rose. Tliis lazy animal seldom, if ever, stirs abroad inbright daylight, but at night unrolls himself…

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