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Show BAVAOES 07 FIELD KICK. ' Win tar 4s -often a -season of starvation with th vol"!, or meadow mice, for those that dwell far from corn and grain fields do not lay by enough provisions to last them until spring, so they ar often forced to llv on food that they -woild otherwise refuse. If we examine the highway thick-eta thick-eta after particularly cold season; we " will find that the trunks of many small saplings and bushes have been girdled N cioe to the ground, and w wlU also discover dis-cover quantities pf th outside bark lying ly-ing where It ha been dropped after the mice have eaten the nutritious part. In a ; bush-lot. where workmen have lately cut away the undergrowth, the mice have held high carnival They hav stripped th poplar twigs of bark, torn into the staghoro sumah heads to reach the seeds j , and devastated every stalk of "bock1 while searching for th fruit. Haael . s thorn' and raspberry bushes wlld-choke- cherry, thom-appl. sumach and apple trees, have all contributed a part of their covering to tb rupport of theae waifs of nature, until spring shall have sent them in abundance of green foodW. Alden LoricgTln Field and gtream. |