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At Home  4:20 P.M.

Nov. 24, 1901
Tonight a White breasted Nuthatch came to the suet which I put out some time ago. It [[marginalia]] food [[/marginalia]] seemed to think that the suet was hardly meant for it and acted in a suspicious [[marginalia]] actions [[/marginalia]] manner. It would sit by the suet and look from one side to the other. Then it ate a [[marginalia]] suet [[/marginalia]] little. The stick with the suet on it was fastened to a wire stretched between two trees. It had some difficulty in hopping along the slippery stick and used its wings [[marginalia]] weather [[/marginalia]] to balance. A wet snow was falling. It seemed to have come for a bite before going to bed.  It was nearly dark.