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The feast is finished and the games are on[Frontispiece]
Ripe and rimy with November's frosts[5]
Swinging from the limbs by their long prehensile tails[7]
Under such conditions he looks quite like a ferocious beast[10]
Filing through the corn-stubs[13]
Here on the fence we waited[16]
He had stopped for a meal on his way out[20]
Playing possum[22]
She was standing off a dog[26]
The cheerful little goldfinches, that bend the dried ragweeds[37]
There she stood in the snow with head high, listening anxiously[45]
And—dreamed[46]
I shivered as the icy flakes fell thicker and faster[52]
The meadow-mouse[55]
It was Whitefoot[60]
From his leafless height he looks down into the Hollow[63]
It caught at the insects in the air[71]
Unlike any bird of the light[77]
They peek around the tree-trunks[83]
The sparrow-hawk searching the fences for them[88]
In October they are building their winter lodges[103]
The glimpse of Reynard in the moonlight[106]
They probe the lawns most diligently for worms[117]
Even he loves a listener[118]
She flew across the pasture[121]
Putting things to rights in his house[122]
A very ordinary New England "corner"[124]
They are the first to return in the spring[127]
Where the dams are hawking for flies[130]
They cut across the rainbow[135]
The barn-swallows fetch the summer[137]
From the barn to the orchard[138]
Across the road, in an apple-tree, built a pair of redstarts[140]
Gathered half the gray hairs of a dandelion into her beak[143]
In the tree next to the chebec's was a brood of robins.
The crude nest was wedged carelessly into the lowest fork of the tree,
so that the cats and roving boys could help themselves without trouble		[145]
I soon spied him on the wires of a telegraph-pole[148]
He will come if May comes[151]
Within a few feet of me dropped the lonely frightened quail[152]
On they go to a fence-stake[154]
It was a love-song[156]
But the pair kept on together, chatting brightly[161]
In a dead yellow birch[163]
So close I can look directly into it[164]
Uncle Jethro limbered his stiffened knees andwent chuckling down the bank[170]
The big moon was rising over the meadows[173]
Section of muskrat's house[174]
The snow has drifted over their house till only atiny mound appears[177]
They rubbed noses[179]
Two little brown creatures washing calamus[180]
She melted away among the dark pines like a shadow[186]
She called me every wicked thing that she could think of[189]
It was one of those cathedral-like clumps[191]
They were watching me[192]
A triumph of love and duty over fear[199]
He wants to know where I am and what I am about[203]
In the agony of death[205]
Calamity is hot on his track[212]
Bunny, meantime, is watching just inside the next brier-patch[215]
The squat is a cold place[217]
The limp, lifeless one hanging over the neck of that fox[220]
His drop is swift and certain[225]
Seven young ones in the nest[231]
The land of the mushroom[239]
Witch-hazel[244]
I knew it suited exactly[252]
With tail up, head cocked, very much amazed,and commenting vociferously[254]
In a solemn row upon the wire fence[257]
Young flying-squirrels[258]
The sentinel crows are posted[260]
She turned and fixed her big black eyes hard on me[265]
Wrapped up like little Eskimos[266]
It is no longer a sorry forest of battered, sunken stumps[269]
Even the finger-board is a living pillar of ivy[272]
A family of seven young skunks[284]
The family followed[289]
"Spring! spring! spring!"[300]
A wretched little puddle[303]
He was trying to swallow something[307]
In a state of soured silence[322]
Ugliness incarnate[325]
Sailing over the pines[328]
A banquet this sans toasts and cheer[333]
Floating without effort among the clouds[337]
From unknown regions of the ocean[345]
A crooked, fretful little stream[346]
Swimming, jumping, flopping, climbing, up he comes![349]
Here again hungry enemies await them[355]

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