IS! 



It's March! The Naturalist's New Year! 



Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old 

 friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks along, the flowers stretch out from 

 the hedges, or look up from the ground; and as each year fades away, he looks 

 back on a fresh store of happy memories. —Sir /<>//// Lubbock in "'///<■ Beauties 

 of A ature." 





PS 



THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



EDUCATION AND RECREATION 



Volume III MARCH 1911 Number 11 



A Bungalow of Restful Good Luck 



By EDWARD F. BIGELOW, Arcadia: Sound Beach, Connecticut 



IDSUMMER, drowsy, hot, 

 quiet, gradually merged 

 into Indian summer, and 

 held full sway above the 

 hills and fields and mead- 

 ^y/Z^ ows over which 1, with a 

 few friends and a camera, 

 had been traveling for many an hour. 

 We had explored the recesses of the 

 ravines, enjoyed the brook's banks and 

 tried to bring back in our photographs 

 at least a section of the climbing hemp 

 weed as the festoons started upward 

 on the clump of alders. We climbed 

 the hill and at the very summit stopped, 

 like Virgil of old, for half an hour under 

 the shade of a spreading beech tree. 

 Then we took a cart path, descended to 

 the main road, and thence were home- 

 ward bound, not tired of the tramp, nor 

 of the turning of slides in many a holder 



black side outward, nor of carrying the 

 well filled vasculum of botanical souv- 

 enirs from field, forest and meadows, 

 but tired with them. 



We were in just the right spirit of 

 mind to welcome any emblem of rest- 

 fulness and peace. Such an emblem 

 was in a neighboring pasture in the 

 shape of two oxen unyoked and stand- 

 ing in similar attitudes of cooperation 

 in rest as they had stood in work. This 

 was the magnet that drew one more 

 slide from the camera holder, and the 

 result is shown on the front cover of 

 this number of Tin- Guide to X ature. 



"Who owns these?" I inquired. 



"Why, don't you know? These are 

 the most famous oxen in all this part of 

 Long Ridge. They formerly, by many 

 a strenuous pull, drew the logs from 

 the stumpy field from which we have 



Copyright 1911 by The Agassiz Association, Arcadia: Sound Beach, Conn. 



