ILLUSTRATED BY
ROBERT BRUCE HORSFALL

BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1896, 1903, BY PERRY MASON COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY THE GOLDEN RULE COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY DALLAS LORE SHARP
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

TO
DOCTOR AND MRS. TRASK
OF THE
SOUTH JERSEY INSTITUTE
BEST OF TEACHERS, DEAREST OF FRIENDS

CONTENTS

[Introduction]xi
I.[The Clock Strikes One]1
II.[Along the Highway of the Fox]9
III.[In the Toadfish’s Shoe]21
IV.[A Chapter of Things to See this Fall]29
V.[Whipped by Eagles]36
VI.[Thanksgiving at Grandfather’s Farm]46
VII.[A Chapter of Things to Do this Fall]52
VIII.[The Muskrats are Building]61
IX.[The North Wind Doth Blow]67
X.[An Outdoor Lesson]76
XI.[Leafing]80
XII.[A Chapter of Things to Hear this Fall]88
XIII.[Honk, Honk, Honk!]96
[Notes and Suggestions]105

ILLUSTRATIONS

[“One of the eagles struck me a stinging blow on the head”]Frontispiece
[The Fall of the Year]1
[Initial, Chapter I]1
[Initial, Chapter II]9
[“Over the hill in a whirlwind of dust and howls”]18
[Initial, Chapter III]21
[“Here I found him keeping house”]24
[Initial, Chapter IV]29
[A Silky Skein of Cobweb]30
[“A wild creature, that won’t get out of your way”]32
[The Pyxie]32
[The Field of Corn in the Shock]33
[The winged, and plumed, and ballooned seeds]34, 35
[Initial, Chapter V]36
[Initial, Chapter VI]46
[“The lantern flickers, the milk foams, the stories flow”]48
[Initial, Chapter VII]52
[A Coon]54
[Quails]55
[Shagbarks]56
[Wild Sea Fowl]57
[Black Hawthorn Berries]58
[Initial, Chapter VIII]61
“[To-night there is no loafing about the lodge]”62
[Tailpiece]66
[Initial, Chapter IX]67
[A Whitefoot]68
[A Chipmunk]70
[A Woodchuck]72
[Five Days of Life and Plenty for the Birds]74
[Initial, Chapter X]76
[Initial, Chapter XI]80
“[But come, boys, get after those bags!]”84
[Initial, Chapter XII]88
[A Loon]89
[When Night comes]90
[A Blue Jay]91
[A Red Squirrel]92
[A Kinglet]93
[Initial, Chapter XIII]96
[Wild Geese]102
[Tailpiece]103