INDEX 



BIRDS, simultaneous action in 

 flight, 143, 144. 



Calf, 138. 



Cat, nursing a young woodchuck, 

 131, 132 ; catching red squirrels, 

 137. 



Chipmunk, 10 ; its winter under- 

 ground and reappearance in the 

 spring, 15, 16 ; courting, 16 ; a 

 solitary creature, 16, 18; ner- 

 vousness of, 16, 18 ; chipping 

 and clucking, 16, 17; storing 

 food, 17, 18, 23, 31, 137 ; adven- 

 tures with cats, 18-21 ; digging 

 its hole, 21, 22 ; furnishing the 

 house, 22 ; food of, 23, 31 ; an 

 evidence of sociability, 23, 24 ; 

 an adventure with a weasel, 24- 

 26 ; attack by a shrike, 27, 28 ; 

 eating strawberries, 29, 30; a 

 game of tag, 30 ; never more 

 than one jump from home, 30 ; 

 shifting quarters, 31 ; its fear 

 of the weasel, 83; its provi- 

 dence, 136, 137. 



Coon. See Raccoon. 



Dog, the churn-dog and the wood- 

 chucks, 34-36; farm-dog and 



fox, 56, 57, 64, 65 ; moisture of 

 his nose, 67, 68 ; fight with a 

 weasel, 82, 83 ; encounter with 

 a mink, 91, 92 ; farm-dog and 

 coon, 94, 95 ; coon-dog and 

 coon, 96, 97 ; farm-dog and 

 skunk, 139 ; a race with a red 

 squirrel, 141-143. See Fox- 

 hound. 



Fox, gray, 71. 



Fox, red, tracks in the snow, 38, 

 39, 53, 54, 90, 91 ; hark of, 53 ; 

 gait of, 54, 126; the author's 

 first meeting with, 54, 55 ; 

 chased by hounds, 56, 62, 64- 

 68; chased by the farm-dog, 

 56, 57, 64, 65 ; tail of, 57 ; me- 

 thod of trapping, 58-61 ; behav- 

 ior when trapped, 61, 139, 140 ; 

 farm-yard depredations, 62-64 ; 

 devices for eluding the hounds, 

 65-68 ; a method of calling. 68 ; 

 burrows and young of, 69, 70 ; 

 daylight naps of, 70 ; resem- 

 blance to the dog, 70, 71 ; a 

 young one in the market, 70, 

 71; and mink, 90, 91; beauty 

 and grace of, 126, 139 ; humili- 

 ation when captured, 139, 140. 



