LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xv 



FACE 



" Knitting to and fro in the Sun " 57 



Cast-off Clothes 60 



"Clinging to some Plant over the Water" .... 62 



"Teasel and Mullein, like Marks of Punctuation" . . 71 



"The Teasel wears a Crown of Purple" 72 



Like "Ear-Bobs" 84 



The "Little Game" ... 85 



The Pop -gun 86 



Seedling Jewel-weeds 87 



The Triangle Web — the Spider at her Task of "Hold- 

 ing on " 100 



Black -eyed Susans 105 



Dewberry in Blossom 106 



Indian Pipe 106 



Bedstraw 107 



Bird's-Nest Fungus 108 



A Salamander 109 



Lichens Creeping over the Logs no 



Water -Scorpion at leisure 117 



The Back-swimmer pulling a Stroke 128 



Water-tigers 137 



The "Merry-go-round" 138 



A Willow Whistle 144 



Pine-cone Willow -galls . . . ... 147 



A Cage for studying Galls . . ... 149 



An Ants' "Cow-shed" 154 



Hermit Thrush in the Maple 158 



Bunch-berry 165 



The "Walking Fern," with its Long, Tapering Fronds . 167 



Brook Trout 171 



"The Whisk of a Finned Tail" 174 



"A Life-sized Wooden Effigy of my First Brook Trout" . 177 



Forget-me-nots 182 



Tear-thumb ... 183 



Brookside Sedges 185 



The Witch-hazel Presents Many Surprises . . .188 



The Winter Nursery of the Labyrinth Spider . . .191 



