CONTENTS.
PAGE [A Thunderstorm in the Forest] 1 [The Heart of the Mountain] 10 [A Lonely Lake] 27 [Following a Lost Trail] 43 [A Night Alone on Chocorua] 62 [Bringing Home the Bear] 82 [The Dead Tree’s Day] 96 [Migration] 118 [Trapping Gnomes] 132 [Old Shag] 146 [My Heart’s in the Highlands] 157 [The Vintage of the Leaves] 168 [Chocorua in November] 194 [Among the Wind-Swept Lakes] 211 [’Lection Day, ’92] 219 [A Wintry Wilderness] 230 [Climbing Bear Mountain in the Snow] 243 [In the Paugus Woods] 252 [At the Foot of Passaconaway] 264 [Christmas at Sabba Day Falls] 273 [Down the Torrent’s Pathway] 285 [Index] 295
Invitation
To drink the wine of mountain air
Beside the Bearcamp Water.
Whittier, Among the Hills.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
[Mount Chocorua in Winter] Frontispiece [Water-Lilies in Chocorua Lake] 16 [Chocorua from Heron Pond] 28 [Canoe Birches of the Bearcamp Valley] 40 [The Peak of Chocorua from the Hammond Trail] 64 [“The Cow”] 68 [The Peak from the Southeast] 72 [The Peak from the North] 76 [View from “the Cow,” showing Moat Mountain and Mount Pequawket Beyond] 80 [The Dead Tree] 98 [Mount Chocorua and Chocorua Lake in Summer] 118 [Two Kinds of Gnomes—Hesperomys and Zapus] 138 [Paugus from Wonalancet Road] 146 [Chocorua seen from the Side of Paugus] 150 [Whiteface and Passaconaway from Paugus] 154 [Crowlands, formerly the Old Doe Farm] 158 [Twilight on the Lake] 174 [Chocorua and Dr. Chadwick’s Pines] 184 [The Peak of Chocorua from Bald Mountain] 206 [Mount Chocorua from Whitton Pond] 216 [“Moat, like a breaking wave”] 232 [Mount Chocorua and the Lake in Winter] 250 [Frost-covered Spruce near the Summit of Passaconaway] 262 [Moat Mountain and the Swift River] 290