Note 
i lines author acknowledges indebtedness to 
more than one acquaintance for observed 
records of animal behavior, which he has incor- 
porated in these tales. His thanks are especially 
due to William Sargood, Deputy Game Warden 
for Southern Berkshire (Massachusetts), to 
Hamilton Gibson, to Walter King Stone, and to 
Warwick S. Carpenter, of the New York State 
Conservation Commission. The primary object 
of the stories being, however, to reconstruct 
imaginatively the life of the wild creatures while 
they are not under observation, but living out 
their normal existence, the author would not seem 
in any way to shift the responsibility for the 
natural history herein contained. 
W. P. E. 
Twin Fires, 
Sheffield, Massachusetts. 
