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THE RUSTIC BRIDGE Frontispiece. 



WHEN ARCTIC CONDITIONS PREVAILED 18 



A MERE REMNANT NOW OF THE STREAM OF OTHER 



DAYS 29 



A REMOTE, WEED-GROWN, LONG NEGLECTED MEADOW 34 

 THE GULLY THROUGH WHICH HURRIES AN UPLAND 



BROOK 43 



MEADOWS NO LONGER, BUT A LOVELY LAKE .... 56 



THE OLD FLOOD-GATES 88 



THE FARTHEST THICKET THE MOST DISMAL SWAMP 94 

 OUR WILDEST WILDERNESS is A RATHER TAME AF- 

 FAIR 103 



WHERE OLD POAETQUISSINGS WIDENS TO A LITTLE 



LAKE 109 



OVERSHADOWED BY TALL AND STATELY OAKS . . . 138 



IN THE CLEAR WATER I SAW MANY SILVERY FISHES 142 



THE LOW-LYING MEADOWS 150 



THE CROSSWICKS MARSHES 154 



A NOVEMBER AFTERNOON 171 



AN OLD WORM-FENCE ON ONE SIDE AND WOODS ON 



THE OTHER 192 



IN DEEP, DARK WOODS 243 



WOODS DURING PLEASANT JANUARY DAYS 256 



THE TRUNKS OF MAJESTIC, TIME-HONORED BEECHES 257 



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