LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS-Co//^ 



FACING PACK 



Bob on a close point 32 



The log-cabin study on the edge of the lawn 34 

 Sailor and the boys in private theatricals 



"The Mystery of Sleep" .... 38 



The inevitable 48 



"We have a beautifully curved sand beach on the 



lawn" 54 



"All have saddles and ride like veteran cavalry- 

 men" 56 



"Another pleasure of my boys is the work of 



the trapper" 58 



"I believe in the gun for a normal boy" . .60 

 "The first man was a hunter" .... 62 

 "He learns that winds and tides have souls" 66 

 "Away over the endless marsh" ... 78 

 "Place our decoys on the edge of the receding 



surf" 86 



"Sometimes the sky is black with them" . 88 



The Dixie 102 



"I never knew how much beautiful weather there 



was in winter" 108 



" George and I crouched among them " . .124 

 "We are homeward bound now, with her big 

 yacht ensign set aft and her colours at her 



masthead" 128 



"The ermine robe of the North" . . .130 



