CONTENTS 



SPRING 



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I. MARCH 17 



When Nature's year begins. — The sun a poor time- 

 piece. — Easter comes. — Nature's spring plowing. 

 — The revival of life. — The meadowlark calls. — A 

 bird trick. — Skunk-cabbage sprouts. — The animal 

 that tunnels our lawns. — The mole awakes. — Nat- 

 ure's use for the mole. 



II. APRIL 41 



The great spring rush. — How sap ascends. — The 

 race of the flowers. — Arbutus blooms. — Why flowers 

 hate ants. — Our flowers and the Ice Age. — The run 

 of the shad. — Why fish ascend rivers. — The home 

 of the shad. — The run upstream. — Drawing the 

 shad net.— The work of the "Fish-hawk."— The 

 blackbird's cackle. — Are blackbirds our enemies ? 



III. MAY 75 



The blossom month. — The fruit in the blossom. — 

 Where the apple gets its core. — The peach and the 

 almond. — Bumble goes roving. — Bumble does not 

 know his children. — A queen's old age. — Crab-apple 

 day. — The gleam of the humming-bird. — What the 

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