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the great northern hare: The northern hare is not often seen here, and I am not sure but that this may be the common brown rabbit.
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slashings: The name for the waste limbs and tops left after cutting forest trees. Tree wardens should compel the woodchoppers to pile this brush up as they cut and burn it while the snow is on the ground to prevent forest fires in summer.
hazelnuts: small brown nuts like the filberts of the stores. They grow on a bush two to six feet high. There are two kinds,—common hazelnut and beaked hazelnut. The green husk looks like a cap, hence its Saxon name haesle, a cap, and the scientific name Corylus from the Greek corys, a helmet.
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Burns: Robert Burns, the Scotch poet.
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root and all, and all in all: from a poem by Lord Tennyson called “Flower in the Crannied Wall.”
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