Index 



Scottish Grays, 27. . 



Self-punishment, 130, 131. 



Settlers in Wisconsin, 211- 

 220, 222-226. 



Shrike, a burglarious, 195- 

 198. 



Siddons, Mungo, 8, 9, 12, 30. 



Skaters (insects), 115. 



Skylark, 46-48. 



Snake, blow, in. 



Snakes, 110-112. 



Snipe, a case of difficult par- 

 turition, 134. 



Snipe, jack, 73. 



Snowstorms, 206. 



Southey, Robert, his "Inch- 

 cape Bell," 5, 6. 



Sow, the old, 88, 89. 



Sparrow, song, 143. 



Spermophile, or ground squir- 

 rel, a frozen, 135, 136. 



Spirit-rappings, 210, 211. 



Squirrel, flying, 192. 



Squirrel, gray, 190-192. 



Squirrel, ground. See Goph- 

 ers and Spermophile. 



State Fair, 260, 261, 269-272. 



Stirling, Professor, 275, 276. 



Strawberries, wild, 122. 



Sunfish, 116. 



Swamps, 208, 209. 



Swans, wild, 149. 



Swimming, 124-129. 



Tanager, scarlet, 143. 

 Thermometer, a large, 258, 



259- 



Thrasher, brown, 139, 140. 

 Thrush, brown. See Thrasher. 

 Thunder-storms, 75, 76. 

 Trap, the steel, 180. 

 Tuberculosis, 212, 213. 

 Turk's-turban, 122. 

 Turtle, snapping, 80. 



Vaccination, n. 



Water-boatmen, 115. 

 Water-bugs, 114. 

 Water-lily, 118, 119. 

 Well, digging a, 231-234. 

 Whippings, 84-87. 

 Whip-poor-will, 68, 69. 

 Wiard, an inventor, 272, 



273- 



Wilson, Alexander, account 

 of fish hawk and bald eagle, 



Si. 52- 



Wind-flower, 119-121. 

 Wisconsin, settling in, 58-62; 



life in, 62-287. 

 Woodpecker, red-headed, 66; 



drowning, 131-133; shot 



and resurrected, 175, 176. 

 Woodpeckers, nest-holes and 



young, 65, 66. 

 Wrecks, 38, 39. 



