ILLUSTRATIONS 



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The Meadow-lark with Her Streaks of Brown and Buff 



Frontispiece 



Spring 15 



The Sun-dial keeps Uneven Time 20 



The Clock keeps Even Time 21 



Jack in the Pulpit 34 



Spring Herald 35 



Dig is Expressed in Every Line of the Mole's Body 37 



Arbutus is Certainly the Favorite (full page) 43 



Our Splendid Native Sugar Maples ,. 47 



The Caleb and Joshua of the Advancing Hosts of Black- 

 birds (full page) 69 



Surely the Apple is King 79 



The Heart of the Peach-blossom 80 



Hosts of Bees Will Haunt the Clover 87 



Here the Hummer Feeds 90 



The Humming-bird's Home 95 



The Egyptian Scarab .' 99 



Summer 101 



A Chipmunk who Gleaned a Mountain Lane (full page) 117 



Children and Bees Love the Violets 121 



Cockle among the Wheat 127 



The Locust's Twin Drums 137 



We Should Call this Fellow the Cicada (full page) 139 



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