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HOW ANIMALS TALK

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The old vixen lies apart where she can overlook the play and the neighborhood.

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HOW ANIMALS TALK

And Other Pleasant Studies of Birds and Beasts

BY
William J. Long
Author of “School of the Woods” “Northern Trails” “Brier-Patch Philosophy” etc.
Illustrations and Decorations by
CHARLES COPELAND

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON

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How Animals Talk

Copyright 1919 by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published August, 1919

G–T

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Contents

CHAP. PAGE
I. [A Little Dog-Comedy] 3
II. [Cries of the Day and Night] 10
III. [Chumfo, the Super-sense] 34
IV. [Natural Telepathy] 74
V. [The Swarm Spirit] 111
VI. [Where Silence Is Eloquent] 137
VII. [On Getting Acquainted] 175
VIII. [On Keeping Still] 195
IX. [At Close Range] 211
X. [The Trail] 237
XI. [Woodsy Impressions] 247
XII. [Larch-trees and Deer] 256
XIII. [Black Mallards] 266
XIV. [Memories] 283
XV. [Beaver Work] 298

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Illustrations

[The Old Vixen Lies Apart Where She Can Overlook the Play and the Neighborhood] Frontispiece
[He Flings Out a Single “Haw!” and the Ducks Spring Aloft on the Instant and Head Swiftly Out to Sea] Facing p. 20
[A Shadow Moved from the Darker Shadow of an Upturned Root—and a Great Buck Stood Alert on the Open Shore] 54
[They Stood Tense as They Searched the Plain and Surrounding Woods for the Source of Danger] 102
[The Course He Took Was Entirely Different from That Taken by the Man Who Brought the Vixen Home] 166
[So Innocent and So Appealing that It is Hard to Keep Your Hands from Him] 192
[His Massive Head Thrust Forward as He Tried to Penetrate the Far Distance with His Near-sighted Eyes] 252
[At Such a Time My Pond Seemed to Awaken and Shed Its Silence Like a Garment] 270

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