The Grain of Dust.
(Per H. H.)

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.[The Little Old Man of the Rock]1
II.[Some Early Settlers and Their Bones]19
III.[The Winds and the World's Work]37
IV.[The Bottom-Lands]55
V.[What the Earth Owes to the Earthworm]75
VI.[The Little Farmers with Six Feet]92
VII.[Farmers with Four Feet]114
VIII.[Water Farmers Who Help Make Land]137
IX.[Farmers Who Wear Feathers]162
X.[The Busy Fingers of the Roots]186
XI.[The Autumn Stores and the Long Winter Night]204
XII.[The Brotherhood of the Dust]225
[Index]247

THE ILLUSTRATIONS

The author wishes to make special acknowledgment to the following publishers for their courtesy in supplying illustrations:

The Macmillan Company for the pictures from Tarr and Martin's "College Physiography" on page [239]; Darwin's "Formation of Vegetable Mould" on page [77].

D. Appleton and Company for the pictures from Gilbert and Brigham's "Introduction to Physical Geography" on page [94]; "Picturesque America" on page [243].