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NATURE 



CONTENTS 



THE MORNING-GLORY (Mrs. Merrill E. Gates) [Poem] 



THE ARKANSAS KINGBIRD [Illustration] - 



BIRDS AROUND MY HOME (Lucie A. Peabody) 



TO A BIRD (George William Phillips, Jr.) [Poem] 



A TRUE SQUIRREL STORY (Mrs. A. S. Hardy) - 



THE CANADA GOOSE [Illustration] 



THE OLD BROWN PULLET (Ella A. McKlnley) - 



THE GLADSOME SPRING (E. N. Benedict) [Poem] 



THE BRUNNICH'S MURRE [Illustration] 



THE FIRST SWALLOW (J. Vallance Brown) [Poem] 



WHEN NATURE PUTS HER CHILDREN TO SLEEP (L. O. Mosher) 



THE ADVANTAGE OF COLOR TO A FLOWER (Mary Alice Moyle) 



THE DOWNY WOODPECKER (H. Walton Clark) [Illustration] 



THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE (Edith Drury Leninprton) [Poem] 



CRABBING IN FLORIDA (Loring M. Hewen) 



THE NESTING HABITS OF SOME BIRDS [Illustration] 



THE GREEDY GULL OF LOCH LOMOND (Belle Paxson Drury) 



KITTY CLOVER (Amanda M. E. Booth) .... 



THE BROWN CREEPER (Collins Thurber) [Illustration] 



THE OLIVE TREE (Alice M. Dowd) 



THE OLD-SQUAW DUCK [Illustration] .... 



CATERPILLARS WHICH FEED ON DILL AND PARSNIP PLANTS 



(Ellen Robertson Miller) - - . . . 



THE SONGS OF OUR BIRDS (Norman Foerster) - - ■ 



THE MERTENSIA (Charles P. Fudge) [Poem] 

 THE WHITE-FACED GLOSSY IBIS (Frank Morley Woodruff ) 



[Illustration] ........ 



(30D IN NATURE (Frederick Fortune) [Poem]" 



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