Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

freshly turned earth and we threw the grasshopper to it. He at once attacked but it got away and led him a merry chase and altho he had it several times it finally succeeded in getting away.(HT)First half of the night was spent in a Frog-legging trip to the north of Albany whither we went on a similar trip last June. The trips were similar and so I will not go into unnecessary detail. The night was very warm, and excellent for such a trip – the moon, but but in the first quarter, did not make enough light to harm and set early. Being earlier in the year the ponds were in better condition: full to the brim with clear water, which was still comparatively fresh from the spring rains. I marked how ideal these ponds were as frog-ponds! Long winding mud-covered beds lined with strong healthy yellow pond-lilies near the banks, which latter were over grown with willows and other small saplings with occasional full-grown