Contents 



I. A BOYHOOD IN SCOTLAND . . . . i 



Earliest Recollections The "Dandy Doctor" 

 Terror Deeds of Daring The Savagery of 

 Boys School and Fighting Birds'-nesting. 



II. A NEW WORLD 51 



Stories of America Glorious News Cross- 

 ing the Atlantic The New Home A Baptism 

 in Nature New Birds The Adventures of 

 Watch Scotch Correction Marauding In- 

 dians. 



III. LIFE ON A WISCONSIN FARM ... 90 



Humanity in Oxen Jack, the Pony Learn- 

 ing to Ride Nob and Nell Snakes Mosqui- 

 toes and their Kin Fish and Fishing Consid- 

 ering the Lilies Learning to Swim A Narrow 

 Escape from Drowning and a Victory Accidents 

 to Animals. 



IV. A PARADISE OF BIRDS 137 



Bird Favorites The Prairie Chickens 

 Water-Fowl A Loon on the Defensive Pas- 

 senger Pigeons. 



V. YOUNG HUNTERS 168 



American Head-Hunters Deer A Resur- 

 rected Woodpecker Muskrats Foxes and 

 Badgers A Pet Coon Bathing Squirrels 

 Gophers A Burglarious Shrike. 



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