The Face of the Fields

by Dallas Lore Sharp

BY DALLAS LORE SHARP
AUTHOR OF “WILD LIFE NEAR HOME,”
“ROOF AND MEADOW,”
AND
“THE LAY OF THE LAND”

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1911

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY DALLAS LORE SHARP
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published March 1911

TO MY GOOD FRIEND
HINCKLEY GILBERT MITCHELL
HONEST SCHOLAR

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CONTENTS

I.	[THE FACE OF THE FIELDS]	1
II.	[TURTLE EGGS FOR AGASSIZ]	27
III.	[THE EDGE OF NIGHT]	57
IV.	[THE SCARCITY OF SKUNKS]	81
V.	[THE NATURE-WRITER]	111
VI.	[JOHN BURROUGHS]	141
VII.	[HUNTING THE SNOW]	177
VIII.	[THE CLAM FARM]	193
IX.	[THE COMMUTER’S THANKSGIVING]	217

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All but two of these papers made their first appearance in The Atlantic Monthly. “The Nature-Writer” was first printed in The Outlook and “Hunting the Snow” in The Youth’s Companion.

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