Winter

by Dallas Lore Sharp

The Dallas Lore Sharp Nature Series

WINTER

BY
DALLAS LORE SHARP
AUTHOR OF “THE FALL OF THE YEAR,” “THE LAY OF THE LAND,” “THE FACE OF THE FIELDS,” ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY
ROBERT BRUCE HORSFALL

BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY THE CHAPPLE PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1910, 1911, BY PERRY MASON COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY THE GOLDEN RULE PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY THE CENTURY COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1908, 1911, 1912, BY DALLAS LORE SHARP
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

TO
THE FOUR SMALL BOYS
ON MULLEIN HILL
WHO HUNT THE SNOW WITH ME

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CONTENTS

	[Introduction]	ix
I.	[Hunting the Snow]	1
II.	[The Turkey Drive]	15
III.	[White-Foot]	29
IV.	[A Chapter of Things to See this Winter]	39
V.	[Christmas in the Woods]	46
VI.	[Chickadee]	61
VII.	[A Chapter of Things to Do this Winter]	74
VIII.	[The Missing Tooth]	80
IX.	[The Peculiar ’Possum]	94
X.	[A February Freshet]	105
XI.	[A Breach in the Bank]	112
XII.	[A Chapter of Things to Hear this Winter]	123
XIII.	[The Last Day of Winter]	129
	[Notes and Suggestions]	137