CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Preface 13 



Where the Naturalist Lived 15 



A Summer with the Red-tails 25 



The Chicken Thief . 45 



The Neighborly Screech Owls 61 



The Polecat 75 



The Magic City 93 



Foxy Ill 



The Hatching of the Turtles 127 



The Gold-Banded Paper-Maker .... 139 



Bunny Cottontail 165 



A Jolly Old Crow 179 



The Caterpillar's Prophecy 199 



