CONTENTS 
An Opening Word 
The Spirit of Spring . 
The Skunk Cabbage 
The Pitcher Plant 
Birds of the Season 
Unappreciated Flowers 
Nature's Revival . 
A Suburban Ramble 
Diminutive Beavers 
The American Mergansers * 
The Awakening Year ♦ . 
The Voice of the Silence ♦ 
The Blood-root . 
** Ya honk l Ya honk ! Ya honk l 
Sudden Summer ♦ ♦ % ♦ 
A Song of the Night . 
An Indolent River 
A Season of Growth ♦ 
As the Year Grows 
The Dandelion . * 
A Summer Resident 
The Night-hawk . 
Nature's Beneficence . 
Don't Pluck It . 
A Record of Time 
A Day in June . 
Melodrama and Tragedy 
An Unfortunate Mourning Dove 
The Life of a Moth . 
Popular Tyrants 
Spotted Sandpipers 
In a Sultry Swamp 
A Successful Pretender 
Below Niagara ♦ 
As they take their Flight . 
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