WASPS
SOCIAL AND SOLITARY
BY
GEORGE W. PECKHAM
AND
ELIZABETH G. PECKHAM
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
JOHN BURROUGHS
ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES H. EMERTON
“Bold sons of air and heat, untamed, untired.”—Iliad, Book XVII
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1905
COPYRIGHT 1905 BY GEORGE W. PECKHAM AND ELIZABETH G. PECKHAM
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published April, 1905