FOREWORD 



THE publication of this collection of 

 "Nature Sketches," as their author 

 called them, is in response to the many- 

 requests which came to him in the last 

 few years of his life. 



While the field study of birds and of 

 the trees that were characteristic of any 

 locality, was a recreation full of pleasure 

 for him, back of all and above all, he felt 

 the appeal of the mountains. The moun- 

 tains satisfied him; they rested him. 



More than twenty times he visited 

 the "White Hills" of New Hampshire; 

 sometimes returning to the scene of a 

 former stay, often going to a new point 

 from which to study them. He went 

 among them, he went around them and 

 to the tops of many of them. Other 

 mountain regions claimed him from time 

 to time ; but this was his "mountain home." 



This love of his for mountains was 

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