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The beautiful is as useful as the •o.^^VclI.— Victor Hugo. 



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NATURE 



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MADE OF IT 



THE SNOW STORM (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [Poem] 



THE ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER [Illustration! 



WHAT THE CHILDREN POUND OUT ABOUT DUCKS (Mrs. RhodeS Campbell) 5 



NATURE'S ORCHESTRA (Robert Kerr Colvllle) [Poem] 



THAT WINTER MORNING (L. O. Mosher) 



A NESTING INCIDENT (Norman O. Foerstc 



THE GOLDEN EAGLE (Illustratlou) - 



REST YE HEAR (Frank Farrington) [Poem J 



THE LAPLAND LONGSPUR [Hlustraiion] - 



THE CATTLE SPIDER (Andrew James Miller) 



AN ABANDONED FARM HOUSE AND WHAT WE 



ertson Miller) ..... 

 THE HORNED TOAD (Henrietta Lee CouUing) 

 THE FORSTER'S TERN [Illustration] 

 BIRDS OF ONE YEAR (Lucie A. Peabody) - 

 THE HABITS OP THE AMERICAN GOLDFINCH 



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SOME CURIOUS BIRDS (Belle Paxson Drurv) 

 THE MONTANA GRAYLING fSeth Mlndwell) [Illustration] • 

 A NATURALIST'S CALENDAR (Henry Johnstone) [Poem] 

 BIRD SYMPATHY (Thomas Havs Uzzell) .... 



THK WATERMELON (Charles S. Raddin) [Illustration] - 

 THK STRANGE STORY OF MISS CECROPIA (Ruth Marshall) 

 THi?: SULPHURY POLYPORUS [Illustration] 



-\ GLASS ROAD (Louise Jamison) 



THE FOG (Edgar Maclaren Swan) [Poem] - - ■ 



EDITED BY WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY 

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