WILD LIFE OF ORCHARD AND FIELD 



Preface 



^HIS book has grown out of an 

 attempt by the author to make 

 a revised edition of his Friends 

 Worth Knoiving, a small volume 

 published by Harper & Brothers 

 J nearly twenty years ago. This 

 process, however, soon involved so many changes, 

 called for by increase of information in this 

 ever-advancing department of knowledge, that it 

 seemed best to cast the whole matter, old and new, 

 into an entirely fresh form, with illustrations, pho- 

 tographed from life, and a new title. 



A large part of this material originally appeared, 

 more or less in its present form, in such periodicals 

 as Harper's Monthly and Harper's Bazar, The 

 Century and St. Nicholas, The Popular Science 

 Monthly, Lippincott's Magazine, The Outlook, The 

 Field, of London, and some others. The author 

 gratefully acknowledges the courtesy of the pub- 

 lishers of these articles in allowing him to reprint 

 them, with such revision as seemed desirable. 

 New York, January, 1902. E. I, 



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