Weihaiwei, Oct, 14—Ever since the period of "White Dew" arrived (Oct. 9.) my lawns have been covered each morning with grey-white dew which sparkles in the early morning sun: but it is not yet frost in the true sense, and it soaks the feet and legs if you venture among the crops....a chilly experience which really inspired this entry in my diary. Out in the hills yesterday, apd walking beside a field of beans, I spied two small creatures (literally) crawling which I took to be field mice when they slipped away into the crop. At the cost of much-soaked shoes and stockings I followed them and was shortly rewarded by one of.my "mice" rising a foot ór so and then disappearing behind the next furrow. I quickly realized that I had discover&ü a pair of Grasshopper-'Warblers and so pursued them through the apparently: liquid vegetation: they never rose more than a foot, until we came to a bank where one took refuge....end I was able
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