ILLUSTRATIONS
Chick, D.D. in his pulpit [Frontispiece]
Firs that pointed to the sky [2]
"Woodland Music after an Ice-Storm" [4]
Birds, too, that had lived in rough winds [25]
Floated beside him in the sea another gull, to whom he talked pleasantly [28]
After Larie found a clam, he would fly high into the air and then drop it [30]
It was not for food alone that Larie and his mate lived that spring [31]
One was named Peter, for his father [34]
The spot she teetered to most of all [43]
Dallying happily along the river-edge [47]
Immer Lake [51]
Two babies, not yet out of their eggshells, hidden among the rushes [53]
While their children were napping, Gavia and Father Loon went to a party [61]
At Work in the Plaster Pit [72]
The Hunting Flight [74]
They always chatted a bit and then went on with their work, placing their plaster carefully [77]
Quaint Clay Pottery [81]
A Famous Landmark [85]
Above all other creatures of this great land he had been honored [87]
The Yankee-Doodle Twins [90]
In this Mother Crow had laid her eggs [101]
"Kah! Kah! Kah!" he called from sun-up to sun-down [109]
Corbie slipped off and amused himself [116]
She wore, draped from her shoulders, snowy plumes of rare beauty [122]
Near Ardea's Home [124]
That criss-cross pile of old dead twigs was a dear home, and they both guarded it [127]
The Flying Clown [135]
Peaceful enough, indeed, had been the brooding days [141]
The little rascals could practise the art of camouflage [144]
Suppose you should find just one pair [153]
Through all the lonesome woods there is not one dove [158]
Once, so many flew by, that the sound of their wings was like the sound of thunder [161]
Oh, the wise, wise look of him [165]
Solomon knew the runways of the mice [168]
Those five adorable babies of Solomon [171]
He passed the brightest hours dozing [174]
It was time for the Feast of the Vagabonds [185]
Something south of the Amazon kept calling to him [189]
Nature has kept faith with him and brought him safely back to his meadow [195]