Confente 



I. The Muskrats are Building I 



II. Christmas in the Woods .... 19 



III. A Cure for Winter . . . . . 3S 



IV. The Nature-Student . ". . . 56 

 V. Chickadee . . . . . , 74 



VI. The Missing Tooth ..... 89 



VII. The Sign of the Shad-bush ... .105 



VIII. The Nature Movement . . . . n 4 



IX. June . / .. . . , . . I27 



X. A Broken Feather . . . . . 137 



XI. High Noon . . .^ . . . . 148 



XII. The Palace in the Pig-pen . . . 161 



XIII. An Account with Nature . . . . 175 



XIV. The Buzzard of the Bear Swamp . . 189 

 XV. The Lay of the Land 200 



