Index 



Chipmunk, 193, 194. 

 Choke-damp, 232, 233. 

 Chores, 202-204. 

 Christian Philosopher, The, 



by Thomas Dick, 242. 

 Clocks, 252-258. 

 Clover, 199, 200. 

 Combe's Physiology, 188. 

 Consumption, 212, 213. 

 Coons, 170, 184, 185. 

 Copperhead, no, in. 

 Com, husking, 105, 106. 

 Cows, sympathy with, 94. 

 Crane, sandhill, 68, 97. 

 Crops, Wisconsin, 199, 200. 

 Cypripedium, 121, 122. 



Dandy Doctor terror, the, 



&^. 

 Davel Brae, 28-30. 

 Deer, 169-174. 

 Desk, a student's, 283, 284. 

 Dick, Thomas, his Christian 



Philosopher, 242. 

 Dog, Watch, the mongrel, 



77-83- 

 Duck, wood, 147, 148. 

 Ducks, wild, 147, 148. 

 Dunbar, Scotland, a boyhood 



in, 1-55; later visit to, 37, 



38. 

 Dunbar Castle, 17. 

 Duncan, William, 233. 



Eagle, bald, and fish hawk, 



SI, S2. 

 Early-rising machine, 252- 

 256, 284. 



Ferns, 122. 



Fiddler, story of a Scotch, 

 130, 131. 



Fighting, boys', 28-30, 33-37. 



Fireflies, 71, 72. 



Fires, brush, 76, 77; house- 

 hold, 204; grass, 230; light- 

 ing the schoolhouse fire, 

 277-279. 



Fishes, 115-117. 



Fishing, 116, 117. 



Flicker, 66. ' 



Flowers, at Dunbar, 12-14; 

 wild, in Wisconsin, 1 18-122. 



Food question, the, 241-244. 



Fountain Lake, 62, 115-118, 

 124-129. 



Fountain Lake Meadow, 62, 



71- 

 Fox River, 123, 141, 147. 

 Foxes, 182, 183. 

 Frogs, love-songs of, 74. 

 Fuller, 129. 



Ghosts, 18, 19. 



Gilrye, Grandfather, 2-4, 43, 



54, 55- 

 Glow-worms, 72. 

 Goose, Canada, 149-15 1. 

 Gophers, 194-198. 

 Grandfather. See Gilrye, 



Grandfather. 

 Gray, Alexander, 60, 61. 

 Green Lake, 103, 104. 

 Griswold, Judge, 280-282. 

 Grouse, ruflted, or partridge, 



drumming, 72. 

 Grubs, 229. 



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