To the Memory of my Friend
William Frank Morrison, M. D.

Contents

I.The Muskrats are Building[1]
II.Christmas in the Woods[19]
III.A Cure for Winter[35]
IV.The Nature-Student[56]
V.Chickadee[74]
VI.The Missing Tooth[89]
VII.The Sign of the Shad-bush[105]
VIII.The Nature Movement[114]
IX.June[127]
X.A Broken Feather[137]
XI.High Noon[148]
XII.The Palace in the Pig-pen[161]
XIII.An Account with Nature[175]
XIV.The Buzzard of the Bear Swamp[189]
XV.The Lay of the Land[200]