BEYOND THE PASTURE BARS 



CHAPTEK I 



BEYOND THE PASTURE BARS 



Y pasture bars are real cedar 

 rails that slide through old- 

 fashioned cedar posts at the 

 distant corner of my small pas- 

 ture. Whichever way I go 

 from the house I come to a pair 

 of pasture bars that need only 

 to be lowered, and I am in the 

 woods, or the wide hilly fields. 

 It is through these pasture bars 

 and into these woods and fields 

 that you are now to go with 



I want to show you a hundred things ! But we 

 shall not have time for so many. Yet there are 

 more than a hundred wild birds and animals liv- 



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