xiv LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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PHOTOGRAPHERS PAGE 



The Reflections of a Brook Frontispiece J. Horace McFarland . 



Stony Brook N. Brock . 6 



Pussy Willows by the Water-Side . . J. H. McF. . 14 



"Roses are — Roses" J. H. McF. . 16 



"Baby Beech Leaves, half awake" . . J. H. McF. . 22 



A Meadow Brook Henry Troth . 46 



"Down by the Kill" . , . . . J. H. McF. . 56 



Stepping Stones O. P. Beckley . 88 



The Water-strider and its Shadow . A. R. Dugmore . 114 



Willow Creek H. T. . 140 



A Vista framed by Nature H. T. . 160 



Flowing peacefully between Rows of Willows H. T. . 180 



Winter J. H. McF. . 202 



The Alder Fringe in Early Spring . . F. A. Waugh . 213 



A Bank white with Trilliums . . . J. H. McF. . 223 



Stony Brook's Tools H. T. . 232 



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Set with Pearls 5 



Roadside Butterflies ... 9 



"Pitchforks"— (Two- tined) 9 



Bittersweet Berries (Solanum) 11 



"A solitary Shad-bush retreating to the Border of the 



Stream" 15 



Sturdy Jack-in-the-pulpit 20 



Violet gone to Seed . . 21 



The Quaint Wild Ginger Blossoms 2g 



Mandrake Umbrellas 30 



Morels 32 



Caddice-worm Cases 34 



Cases of Sand, Shaped like Snail-shells 35 



Wanderer Butterflies 41 



The Arctic Primrose rg 



"The Nets were Funnel-shaped, with a Marvelous Little 



Grating at one End " 53 



