CONTENTS. 



*■• PAQE 



My Fikst Tree-chopping- 



II. 



A Wet Day with the Birds . . 21 



III. 



The Least of the Mammals . . .... 32 



IV. 



Birds of the Brookside 39 



V. 



Winter Work for Naturalists ... 49 



VI. 



A Model Field-naturalist 54 



VII. 



Nature in Winter-quarters 58 



VIII. 



At a Sea-side Laboratory 77 



IX. 



Kattlesnakes in Fact and Fancy 90 



X. 



"Mine Oyster's" Battle of Life 113 



