ILLUSTRATIONS 



"Beyond the pasture bars" .... Frontispiece 



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Robin 3 



Folk in scales 4 



Folk in bare skins 4 



Folk in fur 5 



Folk in shells 6 



Squirrel 9 



Bumble-bee 10 



What a glorious hole for a nest there must be in 



there! , - . 16 



He found himself inside an empty barn ... 19 



Housekeeping for the geese is a particularly serious 



business 29 



There . . . was a family of seven young skunks . 39 



They all followed her . . .41 



Tall black cormorants, great foam-white gulls . . 51 



The tame turkey-hen is notorious for stealing her 



nest 62 



The frozen winter fields 73 



Upland and lowland, field and wood-lot ... 75 



