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You might send what skins
you have collected by the end
of April.
The Mergansers were breeding
in the holes in and out of what
you saw them fly. Probably
Merganser castor, Meyers Meganser
You shall have the
books you want in a day or
two.
Tell your father I have
been reading the "Musikle
Eppick" in the last number
of Prairie Farmer, with great
satisfaction, and have carried
it in my pocket for a week,
for the benefit of appreciative
friends
Yours truly
S.F. Baird
Robt Kennicott
Ill