Index 



Sahara, desert of, 245 

 Saints' Days, 254 

 Salamanders, 237 

 Sandpiper, 252 

 Self-reliance, 271 

 Senecio, 89 

 Shellbark, 225 

 Shelley, quoted, 89 

 Shelter, 183 

 Sheol, 283 

 SkunK, 226 

 Sleep, 137 

 Snake, black, 156 



" water, 141 

 Snakes, 140, 251 

 Sneeze- weed, 261 

 " Snow-flakes," 44 

 Solitude, its merits, 58, 153 

 Solomon, 117, 121 

 Sparrow, English, 103, 182 

 field, 80 

 song, 101, 135, 149, 



151 



Sparrows, 28, 252 

 Spatter-dock, 165 

 Spice wood, 235, 240 

 Spiders, 252 



Spring, commencement of, 133 

 flowers of, 143 



" poets, 148 

 Squirrel, flying, 80 

 Squirrels, 176, 228, 237 

 Star of Bethlehem, 165 

 Strawberry, wild, 169 

 Sunfish, banded, 178 



" common, 178 

 Sunflower, 261 

 Sunrise, 190 

 Swallows, 171 

 Swedes, 248 



Terrapin, rough-backed, 174 



Thalictrum, 89 



Thoughts, company of one's, 



148 



Thoreau, quoted, 209, 244 

 Thrush, 61, 69, 95, 101, 165, 



267 



Tit, crested, 27, 135 

 Toad, tree, 105 

 Toads, intelligence of, 157 

 Tortoise, 259 

 Trees, growth of, 71 



" old, 30 

 Truth, 136 



" sacrifice of, 195 

 Turtle, snapping, 180 

 Turtles, 105, 174, 237 



Violet, white, 146 

 Violets, 62, 143, 268 

 Vireo, red-eyed, 69 



" warbling, 69 



" white-eyed, 102 

 Voice, a wandering, 293 



Temperature, fall of, 76 



Walking, 4 



Warbler, Blackburnian, 171 



Canadian, 219 

 " summer, 172 

 Warblers, 164, 172, 226 

 Weasel, 210, 240 



voice of, 74 

 Weather bureau, statistics of, 



65 



Weather wisdom, 137 

 Web, spider, 241 

 Wildlife, truthful, 197 



" and weather, 69 

 Willows, 105 

 Windflower, 170 

 Winter, end of, 130 

 " wreckage of, 154 



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