CONTENTS

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[A Naturalist's Boyhood]xi
[The Story of the Floundering Beetle]1
[Fox-fire]11
[A Homely Weed with Interesting Flowers]24
[Two Fairy Sponges]34
[Green Pansies]44
[Mr. and Mrs. Tumble-bug]53
[Those Horse-hair Snakes]64
["Professor Wiggler"]72
["Cow-spit, Snake-spit, and Frog-spit"]83
[The Paper Wasp and His Doings]91
[The Spider's Span]104
[Ballooning Spiders]112
[The Lace-wing Fly]122
[The Perfumed Beetle]130
[Mushroom Spore-prints]136
[Some Curious Cocoons]145
[Nettle-leaf Tent-builders]154
[The Evening Primrose]163
[The Dandelion Burglar]171
[The Troubles of the House-fly]178
[Tendrils]185
[A Strange Story of a Grasshopper]195
[Riddles in Flowers]202
[Luck in Clovers]213
[Barberry Manners]221
[A Woolly Flock]230
["What Ails Him?"]238
[The Cicada's Last Song]246
[Index]257