CONTENTS 



An Opening Word 



The Spirit of Spring . 



The Skunk Cabbage 



The Pitcher Plant 



Birds of the Season 



Unappreciated Flowers 



Nature's Revival . 



A Suburban Ramble 



Diminutive Beavers 



The American Mergansers 



The Awakening Year . 



The Voice of the Silence 



The Blood-root . 



** Ya honk ! Ya honk ! Ya honk 



Sudden Summer . 



A Song of the Night . 



An Indolent River 



A Season of Growth . 



As THE Year Grows 



The Dandelion . 



A Summer Resident 



The Night-hawk . 



Nature's Beneficence . 



Don't Pluck It ♦ 



A Record of Time 



A Day in June 



Melodrama and Tragedy 



An Unfortunate Mourning Dove 



The Life of a Moth . 



Popular Tyrants 



Spotted Sandpipers 



In a Sultry Swamp 



A Successful Pretender 



Below Niagara 



As they take their Fught 



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