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ConktxtB 



I. The Muskrats are Building . . . . i 



II. Christmas in the Woods .... 



III. A Cure for Winter .... 



IV. The Nature-Student .... 

 V. Chickadee 



VI. The Missing Tooth gg 



VII. The Sign of the Shad-bush . . . .105 

 VIII. The Nature Movement . . . .114 



IX. June 127 



X. A Broken Feather 137 



XI. High Noon 148 



XII. The Palace in the Pig-pen . . . 161 



XIII. An Account with Nature . . . -175 



XIV. The Buzzard of the Bear Swamp . . 189 

 XV. The Lay of the Land 200 



