ers were formerly a numerous and merry crew

    Nimrod wch up a leaf by

    train on it wilder and more melodious, if

    my memory serves me, ting-horn.

    At midnigimes met h hounds

    in my pat t of my

    and silent amid till I had

    passed.

    Squirrels and ed for my store of nuts.  there

    co four inches

    in diameter, wer -- a

    Norer for they

    o mix a large proportion of pine bark her

    diet.  trees ly flouris

    midsummer, and many of t, tely

    girdled; but after anoter suc exception dead.

    It is remarkable t a single mouse shus be allowed a whole

    pine tree for its dinner, gnaead of up and do;

    but per is necessary in order to trees, which are

    to grow up densely.

    the hares (Lepus Americanus) were very familiar.  One had her

    form under my er, separated from me only by the

    flooring, and sartled me eacy departure

    ir -- triking her head

    against timbers in o come round my

    door at dusk to nibble tato parings w,

    and  they could hardly be

    distinguisill.  Sometimes in tely

    lost and recovered sigting motionless under my window.

    h a

    squeak and a bounce.  Near at ed my pity.  One

    evening one sat by my door t first trembling

    uno move; a poor hing, lean and bony,

    tail and slender pa

    looked as if Nature no longer contained the breed of nobler bloods,

    but stood on  toes.  Its