Index 



Mink, 240 



Minnows, 239 



Misfortune, excellence of, 204 



Montana, 75 



Moose, 232 



Morning, an Alpine, 41 



Moss, 234, 236 



Mouse, field, 176, 210 

 " meadow, 240, 251 

 " white-footed, 226 

 " vesper, 257 



Muskrat, 240, 248 



Nature, 153 



" number three in, 169 

 " source of inspiration, 



117 

 " views of, 126 



Natural history, trustworthi- 

 ness of, 212 



New Jersey, 64 



Night's Plutonian shore, 128 



November, nut-brown, 223 



Oak, chestnut-leaved, 222 

 " Crosswicks', 32 

 " insect foes of, 154 

 " white, great size of, 221 



Oaks, Under the, 216 



Opossum, 226 



Oenothera, 89 



Originality, an ideal, 269 



Oriole, 257 



Ornithology, newspaper, 149 



Oven-bird, song of, 172 



Owls, 80, 157, 197 



Ownership, sense of, 244 



Oxygen, 162 



Ozone, 162 



Pan, 246 

 Paradise, 4, 293 



304 



Peewee, wood, 102, 184 



Penstemon, 89 



Perch, pirate, 181 



Persimmon, 217 



Pewter plates, 141 



Phlox, 89 



Pickerel weed, 165 



Pike, 211, 245 



Plantain, rattlesnake, 235 



Plant-life, submerged, 179 



Plants, aquatic, 165 



Plover, killdee, 135 



Pluto, 99 



Pope, Alexander, quoted, 243 



Poplar, Lombardy, 65 



Potsherds, 277 



Prayer Book quoted, 204 



Pumpkins, 258 



Quakers, 31 

 Queen Anne, 275 



Rabbits, disease among, 228 

 Raccoon, 248 

 Rail, king, 291 

 Rain, 161 



" -bow, 246 

 Rattlesnake weed, 235 

 Rats, 98 

 Raven, 128 

 Redstart, 170, 172 

 Redwing, 53, 263 

 Reed-bird, 203 

 Reindeer, 232 

 Rice, wild, 291 

 Richelieu, 214 



Robins, 102, 135, 142, 149, 151 

 Rocks, riddle of the, 110 

 Rose-breasted grosbeak, 54, 60, 



164, 254 

 Rushes, 229 



