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a season of undisturbed chastisement, beyond reach of Miss Laury, was too much for me. The Oaks, Sunday, October 25 The weather is growing cold; to-day it is quite raw and uncomfortable. The family have partly gone to the church where it is Communion Sunday. They have it once in three months, and they say the elders pull away at the wine in a style which is quite vivacious; they use a dozen bottles for several hundred people, and then take up a collection to pay for it. Camp Shaw, November 13 . . . There is a perpetual chatter of jackdaws, a black, glossy bird, intermediate between the blackbird and crow in size, which congregates in immense flocks at this season, soaring and alighting in great armies. November 21 I believe I have a constitutional affinity for undeveloped races, though without any of Thoreau's anti-civilization hobby. I always liked the Irish and thought them brilliant. It is the fashion with philanthropists who come down here to be impressed with