Wild Folk

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Wild Folk, by Samuel Scoville, Illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull and Carton Moorepark
Wild Folk SAMUEL SCOVILLE, Jr.
WILD FOLK
THE PINCUSHION OF THE WOODS
By SAMUEL SCOVILLE, Jr. AUTHOR OF “EVERYDAY ADVENTURES”
With Illustrations by CHARLES LIVINGSTON BULL AND CARTON MOOREPARK
The ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS BOSTON
Copyright, 1922, by Samuel Scoville, Jr.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To my Son Gurdon Trumbull Scoville who has learned to know and love so many of our Lesser Brethren of Earth and Air and Water this book is dedicated
WILD FOLK
All winter long the Barrens had slept still and white. Rows and regiments of low pitch-pine trees, whose blue-green needles grow in threes instead of the fives of the white or the twos of the Virginia pines, marched for miles and miles across the drifted snow. Through their tops forever sounded the far-away roar of the surf of the upper air, like the rushing of mighty wings, while overhead hung a sky whose cold blue seemed flecked with frost. The air tingled with the spicery of myriads of pine trees. Grim black buzzards, on fringed, motionless wings, wheeled and veered over this land of silence.