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and he was after like a flash but did not get it.  When he got them from the tree he would pick them out of the cups easily.  I found some nubbins of corn in a field while hunting for a place to put them.  I found a hole with 16 acorns in it that he had put there.  On each one the marks of his bill made by hammering them in could be seen.  He had also hid them by putting bark in with them.  It was quite deep and around edge of it were small feathers from his head

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and neck taken off when he was pounding.  I watching him when he flew into a little ditch and when I looked he was drinking water like a chicken. Hearing the [[underlined]] skik [[/underlined]] of a Hairy woodpecker I followed it up and saw him eating some sweet corn.  He had commenced at the top of the ear and was slowly working down eating only the soft part around the [[end?]] only.  near there I found on a rail