INDEX 



Abbott's Landing, 1 



Accentor, Insistent, 67, 172 



Accidents, 188 



Acorns, 234 



Adversity, virtue of, 256 



^Esop, quoted, 260 



Age, advance of, 152 



Almanacs, 130, 133 



Angling, 187 



Animal Intelligence, 171, 176 



Animals, enemies of, 210 



Antipodes, dwellers at, 246 



Apples, 198, 227 



Apple-tree, 61 



Archaeologists, 113 



Aristotle, 4 



Arrow-points, 113, 166, 175 



Artificiality, 62 



Assunpink Creek, 7 



Aster, 233 



Atlantic Ocean, 70 



Atmosphere, " colonial," 164 



Attics, 97, 164 



Authors, originality of, 116 



Authorship, 122 



Azalea, pink, 62, 165, 170 



Bacon, quoted, 256 

 Bats, 98 

 Bear, 248 

 Beaver, 248 

 Beeches, 95, 154, 233 



" Three," 85 

 Bidens, 261 



Birds, since 1874, 149 

 " quarrels among, 183 

 songs of in winter, 149 

 young, enemies of, 83 



Bittern, great, 80 

 little, 251 



Blackberry pie, 106 



Bladderwort, 180 



Blizzard of 1888, 52 



Blue-bird, 52, 102, 135, 142, 

 149, 151, 226, 271, 263 



Bluet, 165, 170, 233 



Blue- jay, 135, 225, 237 



Bobolink, 263 



Bobwhite, 270 



Books, modern, 117 



Botanists, 114 



Bowlders, 233 



Bugbears, 122 



Bugs, aquatic, 252 



Buttercup, 62, 170 



Button-bush, 177 



Buttons, old, 166 



Cabbage, skunk, 68, 130 

 Calendars, 115, 254 

 Camp-fires, Indian, 277 

 Candlesticks, Colonial, 99 

 Candor, 160, 192 

 Canton, China, 99 

 Cardinal, 101, 135, 142, 151 

 Catbird, 66, 90, 101, 165 

 Cedar, 6 

 Cellars, 97 



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