Note to the Reader 



ments from the lives of many mountain-lambs. 

 But the latter parts, the long hunt and the death 

 of Scotty MacDougall, are purely historical. 

 The picture of the horns is photographically 

 correct. They now hang, I believe, in the 

 home of an English nobleman. 



"Tito " is very composite. The greyhound in- 

 cident in which Tito lost her tail was related to 

 me by Major John H. Calef, U. S. A. The 

 other circumstances are chiefly from my own 

 observation. 



"Johnny" is almost without deviation from 

 the facts. 



The "Kangaroo Rat" is compounded of 

 two, and the " Troubadour " of several, indi- 

 viduals. 



"Chink" is entirely true. 



The " Chickadee " is, of course, true only in 

 its underlying facts. This is one of a series of 

 stories written in the period from 1881 to 1893, 

 and published in various magazines. It is in- 

 serted as an example of my early work, when I 

 used the archaic method, making the animals 

 talk. " Molly Cottontail " was one of this series. 

 It was written in 1888, and in part published in 



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