BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1904, 1905, AND 1906, BY THE CHAPPLE PUBLISHING CO., LTD.
COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS BOOK COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1908, 1911, AND 1912, BY DALLAS LORE SHARP
COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS
U . S . A

TO MY SISTER
JENNIE
THE BEST OF COMPANIONS
IN THE WOODS AND FIELDS
THROUGH WHICH WE
WENT TO SCHOOL

CONTENTS

[Introduction]ix
I.[Spring! Spring! Spring!]1
II.[The Spring Running]7
III.[An Old Apple Tree]13
IV.[A Chapter of Things to See this Spring]26
V.[If you had Wings]33
VI.[A Chapter of Things to Do this Spring]41
VII.[The Palace in the Pig-Pen]48
VIII.[Is it a Life of Fear?]60
IX.[The Buzzard of the Bear Swamp]76
X.[A Chapter of Things to Hear this Spring]86
XI.[Turtle Eggs for Agassiz]94
XII.[An Account with Nature]115
XIII.[Woods Medicine]127
[Notes and Suggestions]137

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Spring of the Year—Shadbush]Frontispiece
[Hylas peeping “Spring!”]1
[“The earliest bloodroot”]4
[The Turkey-Hen—“Half a mile from home”]8
[Catfish Family]12
[Screech Owl—“Out over the meadow he sails”]17
[Tree-Toad—“Comes forth to the edge of his hole”]23
[Skunk-Cabbage and Bumblebee]27
[A Sunfish over its Nest]29
[Crested Flycatcher with Snake-skin]31
[“One of my little band of crows”]33
[Young Painted Turtle, Frogs’ Eggs, Snails, and Whirligig Beetles]45
[“One live toad under your doorstep”]46
[Phœbe and her Young]55
[Pike and Minnows]62
[Fox Barking—“Upon the bare knoll near the house”]66
[Pine Marten and Chipmunk]71
[“Upon one of these the buzzard sat humped”]79
[Young Turkey Buzzard]83
[Brown Thrasher—“Our finest, most gifted songster”]87
[Painted Turtle—“Began to bury herself”]103
[Chipmunk eating June-bugs]117
[“Two tumble-bugs trying to roll their ball up hill”]127
[“The box turtles scuff carelessly along”]130