CONTENTS

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Preface[1]
Life and Its Conditions[9]
Plants that Feed on Insects[16]
Slime-Animals[32]
Primitive Lasso-Throwers[36]
Five-Fingered Jack on the Oyster[41]
Earth-worms in History[48]
Fiddler-and Hermit-Crabs[70]
Funnel-Web Builder[77]
Book-Lovers[86]
You-ee-up[90]
Tower-Building Cicada[95]
Honey-Dew[104]
Milch-Cows of the Ants[108]
Living Artillery[111]
Bright and Shining Ones[115]
Queen of American Silk-Spinners[121]
Basket-Carriers[126]
Honey-Producing Caterpillars[132]
Hibernating Butterflies[144]
Leaf-Cutter Bee[149]
Battle Between Ants[153]
Nest-Building Fishes[158]
Slippery as an Eel[168]
Rana and Bufo[174]
Our Natural Enemies[186]
House-Bearing Reptiles[198]
Summer Duck[204]
American Woodcock[210]
Piping Plover[218]
Bob White[222]
Ruffed Grouse[230]
An Old Acquaintance[240]
American Osprey[245]
Turkey Buzzard[252]
Rare and Curious Nests[263]
Strange Friendship[279]
Nature’s Little Store-Keeper[285]
Canine Sagacity[290]
Feline Intelligence[295]
Bright Little Cebidae[301]
Untutored Man[309]
Living Souls[316]
Consciousness in Plants[323]
Mind in Animals[344]
Life Progressive[404]
Survival of the Fittest[426]
Man’s Preëminence[469]
Future Life[479]