NOTE 



NEARLY all of the illustrations are from amateur photo- 

 graphs taken expressly for this book by Mr. George N. Jen- 

 nings, Mr. James W. Young, and the author, but of these 

 Mr. Jennings has contributed by far the greatest number. I 

 am indebted, however, to Mr. Alexander Thomson for the 

 picture entitled "Man's Best Friend," to Mr. Lee Harris 

 Huston for "The Squirrel Hunter," and to Mr. Ernest Har- 

 old Baynesfor "The Gray Squirrel." Of professional pho- 

 tographers, Mr. Paul Fleur has given his assistance with the 

 frontispiece, "Old Spot and Her Owner," and "A Country 

 Lane," and Mr. A. E. Rosebaum with "The Old Fire- 

 place." The illustrations are believed to reproduce faithfully 

 many of the typical scenes and occupations around the old 

 homestead. 



