CONTENTSCHAPTER PAGEI.[The Little Old Man of the Rock]1II.[Some Early Settlers and Their Bones]19III.[The Winds and the World's Work]37IV.[The Bottom-Lands]55V.[What the Earth Owes to the Earthworm]75VI.[The Little Farmers with Six Feet]92VII.[Farmers with Four Feet]114VIII.[Water Farmers Who Help Make Land]137IX.[Farmers Who Wear Feathers]162X.[The Busy Fingers of the Roots]186XI.[The Autumn Stores and the Long Winter Night]204XII.[The Brotherhood of the Dust]225 [Index]247