Contents 



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Travels in a Tree-top ....... 9 



A Hunt for the Pyxie 61 



The Coming of the Birds 71 



The Building of the Nest gj 



Corn-stalk Fiddles 97 



The Old Kitchen Door 103 



Up the Creek 109 



A Winter-Night's Outing 119 



Wild Life in Water 125 



An Old-fashioned Garden 133 



An Indian Trail 147 



A Pre-Columbian Dinner 155 



A Day's Digging 167 



Drifting 173 



Footprints 187 



Bees and Buckwheat 195 



Dead Leaves 203 



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