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NATURE 



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CONTENTS. 



JUNE (Helen Hunt Jackson) [Poem] ... , . 



WAY OF JUNE [Poem] 



THE SWALLOW-TAILED KITE [Illustration] . . . . 



TO THE BIRDS (Henry Johnstone) [Poem] ..... 

 OLD-FASHIONED OUTINGS (Helen Mansfield) . . . . 



THE ALICE'S THRUSH [Illustration] 



A BIT OF FICTION FROM BIRDLAND (Sara Elizabeth Graves) . 



THE CAROLINA CHICKADEE (J. Rollin Slonaker) [Illustration] 



DICK— THE STORY OF A DOG (Katharine Watkins Lawson) 



THE VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW [Illustrationl .... 



A PRETTY HOUSE FINCH vLeander S. Keyser) .... 



THE THRUSH'S SOLO (Mrs. A. S. Hardy) [Poem] 



SPRINGS, GEYSERS AND ARTESIAN WELLS (M. S. Hall) [Illustration] 



WHERE WE FOUND THE LADY-BIRDS (Mary Catherine Judd) 



CHERRY AND I (Elizabeth Walling) [Poem] 



STARFISHES (Frank Collins Baker) [Illustration] .... 

 THE FIRE-WEED OR GREAT WILLOW-HERB [Illustration] 



THE SEA OR MARSH PINK [Illustration] 



THE WORLD (John Greenleaf Whittier) [Poem] .... 



THE WATER OUSEL (J. Mayne Baltimore) . . ' . 



TOBACCO (Albert Schneider) [Illustration] ..... 



Edited by WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY. 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



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