. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. MARVELS OF METAMORPHOSIS 811. Their guesses have run all the way from prospecting for gold to hunting buried treas- ure. I remember one bright young lady who asked if we were collecting "botanical specimens"—on a hill where the ground was burned bare, save for a blanket of dry ashes! But the lady who called the police topped them all. I was digging busily when I heard Danny's excited stage whisper: "Daddy, look! Radio cops!" Sure enough. A pa- trol car had stopped on the road below and an officer was climb-
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. MARVELS OF METAMORPHOSIS 811. Their guesses have run all the way from prospecting for gold to hunting buried treas- ure. I remember one bright young lady who asked if we were collecting "botanical specimens"—on a hill where the ground was burned bare, save for a blanket of dry ashes! But the lady who called the police topped them all. I was digging busily when I heard Danny's excited stage whisper: "Daddy, look! Radio cops!" Sure enough. A pa- trol car had stopped on the road below and an officer was climb- ing the slope. As he approached and sized us up, he began to grin, but he seemed to be puzzled, too. It appeared that his curiosity was partly official and partly per- sonal. I told him that we were prospecting for parasites in the nests of trapdoor spi- ders. He grinned and explained that some good lady had phoned in and demanded that Danny and I be in- vestigated as ''suspi- cious characters"! I knew that our clothes had seen better da3's, that we looked like criminals. "Aw, she was just burning up with curios- ity," he said disgustedly. "And she took that way to find out what you were ; HELPFUL HUNCHES If I have been unusually fortunate in finding valuable clues and rare specimens along the way, it is only fair to give credit to helpful hunches. For instance, there was the first day's trapdoor spider hunting in the fall of 1935. Male trapdoor spiders are rare. Naturalists jj^^gSadi. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Washington, D. C. : National Geographic Society
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