Maeterlinck, on the presence of mind of a tree and its heroic struggle against adverse circumstances, [200]
Marmots, their farm villages, [124]
Mason-Bees. The house that Mrs. Mason-Bee built and its relation to the story of the soil, [104]
Moles, their work as ploughmen, [115];
how they do their tunnelling, [117];
Mr. Mole's castle under the ground, [118];
how he keeps his hair so sleek, [119];
where he spends the winter, [218]
Monsters, prehistoric, what they looked like, their habits and how they help the farmers of to-day with their farming, [20]
Mosses, as soil makers, [8]
Mound-Birds, how they build their incubators;
other interesting habits, [174]
Mountains, how the trees climb them, [13];
why you always hear a rattle of stones in the mountains at sunrise, [43];
how the winds help trees to climb the western slopes, [55];
how the mountains help the rain to come down and why so many rivers rise in mountains, [56];
why the bones of the monsters are found in the mountains, [31];
how the mountains helped kill off the monsters, [32];
farm villages of the marmots in the mountains, [124];
team-work between mountains and pebbles, [240]
Nature Study, its great value, [231];
how it is taking the place of cruel sport, [232]
New England, why its soil is so versatile and dependable, and how it helps grow farm boys into famous men, [239]