CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I. 
Page 
NATURE AND HER HARMONIES, ........... 1 
CHAPTER IL 
BOYHOOD AND BIRDS MOCKING-BIRDS IN A STRANGE NEST, ... 54 
CHAPTER III. 
MY HUMMING-BIRDS, . 98 
CHAPTER IV. 
SONG OF THE CHILDREN ABOUT SPRING, 124 
CHAPTER V. 
DRAGGING THE SEINE, . 134 
CHAPTER VL 
ANALOGIES AND SIMILITUDES- — BIRDS AND POETS ILLUSTRATING 
EACH OTHER 144 
CHAPTER VII. 
DROLLERIES OF THE WOODS, 180 
