Sept. 19—That a bird student) gets some fascinating problems to solve may be instanced by the following note. A friend brought me an extract from the diary of one, Roger Lowe, an apprentice looking after his master's shop in Ashton-in-Makerfield (Lancs.)—written on the 20th May 1664—and asked if I could interpret it. Here it is.
"John Jenkinson and Joshua Naylor and I went together to take a throstle nest, and by chance we met with a pye-annet nest. We took it; every one had one pye, and one we gave to The. Winstanley and so came home."
Now for my interpretation, The, first, point is that Ashton-in-Makerfield lies directly between Wigan and Warrington, and is therefore in close touch with the sea coast on the west, and the wide mouth of the river Mersey on the south. That our diarist, Roger, was a constant visitor to the big waters above) and I went a pye-annet. My bird lore immediately tells me (though I have no definite authority) that the "annet" (or annet) is the Kittiwake Gull: and my chief authority on Gulls the nests of Kittiwakes may be found "on ledges of cliffs, on low islands, sand hills and beaches, on tussocks... and even occasionally in bushes and trees. many breed far from the sea gulls usually lay two or three eggs... sometimes four, occasionally five." in-Makerfleld is well within the a Kittwake's nest containing four young of the or four years. even to this day, our more in the north collect and eat each year. Hence Roger and his friends heartlily as they tion of an Among these was a remarkable verse on the plight of France and entitled. "The Women Shall Knit Again." Its author, Burlingame, is a newspaperman who, in war, participated in the Meuse-Argonne sive. Stephen Vincent Benét came forth with Miss. added a In the past few months as the confine has ar poems then began to appear in rin. th pai to in book foi grown more wid the output of the poets, both under fire in the British Isles themselves has increased. One This is no war for blind material things. This war is fought along a world-wide front Within the mind of man and there can No victory now but on the field of thought, +s) bein; and-—what quite feme Ted hot only peas few but By the young men in aki.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.