Index 



proves a way out of diffi- 

 culties, 245-251; inven- 

 tions, 248-261 ; deciding on 

 an occupation, 259-261 ; 

 determines to take his in- 

 ventions to the State Fair, 

 260-262; starting out into 

 the world, 262-269; at the 

 State Fair, 269-272; enters 

 a machine-shop at Prairie 

 du Chien, 272, 273; odd 

 jobs at Madison, 273, 274; 

 enters the University, 274- 

 276; life at the University, 

 276-287; teaching school, 

 277-279; vacation work at 

 Hickory Hill, 279; first les- 

 sons in botany, 280-283; 

 more inventions, 283-286; 

 enters the University of the 

 Wilderness, 286, 287. 



Muir, Margaret, 56, 253. 



Muir, Mary, 56. 



Muir, Sarah, 15, 56, 127. 



Muir's Lake. See Fountain 

 Lake. 



Muskrats, an Indian hunting, 

 81, 82; habits, 177-181. 



Nighthawk, 69-71. 



Nob and Nell, the horses, 



103-105, 107-109. 

 Nuthatches, 144, 145. 

 Nuts, 123, 124. 



Oriole, Baltimore, 143. 



Owls, 145. 



Oxen, humanity in, 90-94- 



Pardeeville, Wis., 263-266. 

 Partridge, or ruffed grouse, 



drumming, 72. 

 Pasque-flower, 119-121. 

 Phrenology, 266. 

 Pickerel, 116, 117. 

 Pigeon, passenger, Audubon's 



account, 52, 53, 162-166; 



extermination, 83; in Wis- 

 • consin, 158-162; Poka- 



gon's account, 166, 167. 

 Ploughing, 201, 202, 220, 221; 



the breaking plough, 227- 



229. 

 Plutarch's Lives, 241, 242. 

 Pokagon, his account of the 



passenger pigeon, 166, 167. 

 Portage, Wis., 93, 94, 108. 

 Prairie chickens, 145, 146. 

 Prairie du Chien, 272, 273. 

 Pucaway Lake, 147. 



Quail. See Bob-white. 



Rabbits, 181, 189. 

 Raccoon, 170, 184, 185. 

 Rails, splitting, 221, 222. 

 Rattlesnakes, no. 

 Reid, Mr., 213, 214. 

 Ridgway, Robert, 64. 

 Road-making, 209. 

 Robin, American, 139. 

 Robin, European, 27, 28. 



Scootchers, 20-22. 

 Scotch, the, their ideas of 

 self-punishment, 130, 131. 

 Scotch, the language, 57. 



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