CONTENTS 



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I. Ways of Nature 1 



II. Bird-Songs 29 



III. Nature with Closed Doors ... 47 



IV. The Wit of a Duck .... 53 

 V. Factors in Animal Life .... 59 



VI. Animal Communication ... 87 



VII. Devious Paths 109 



VIII. What do Animals Know? . . . 123 



IX. Do Animals Think and Reflect? . . 151 



X. A Pinch of Salt . . w . . 173 



XI. The Literary Treatment of Nature . 191 



XII. A Beaver's Reason .... 209 



XIII. Reading the Book of Nature . . . 231 



XIV. Gathered by the Way 



I. THE TRAINING OF WILD ANIMALS . . 239 



ii. an astonished porcupine . . . 242 



iii. birds and strings .... 246 



iv. mimicry 248 



v. the colors of fruits .... 251 



vi. instinct . . . • . . 254 



vii. the robin ...... 261 



viii. the crow 265 



Index 273 



