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...season. For legions of hunters, woodsmen and students of weather arcana, the evidence is plain-a harsh winter lies ahead. The omens, they warn, are all but unanimous: animal fur is thicker, the perch are running deeper, and the pine tree is unusually laden with seeds. Linwood Rideout of Bowdoinham, Me., a hunting guide for 40 years, gauges the se verity of the winter to come by the relative whiteness of a wild goose's breastbone after the bird has been roasted and eaten. He last week reported the bone "as white as river ice. That means heavy snows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Oracular Breastbones | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

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