BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1909
By Small, Maynard and Company
(INCORPORATED)
Entered at Stationers’ Hall
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

The author wishes to express his thanks to the “Boston Transcript” for permission to reprint in this volume matter which was originally contributed to its columns.

CONTENTS

Page
[Snugging-Down Days][1]
[Certain White-Faced Hornets][23]
[Thin Ice][45]
[Winter Fern-Hunting][65]
[The Bare Hills in Midwinter][87]
[Some January Birds][107]
[When the Snow Came][129]
[The Mink’s Hunting Ground][151]
[In the White Woods][169]
[The Road to Muddy Pond][191]
[Among the Muskrat Lodges][215]
[Thick Ice][235]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[The muskrats have built higher than common this year][Frontispiece]
OPPOSITE PAGE
[Their paper fort ... had by September grown to the dimensions of a water-bucket and contained a prodigious swarm of valiant fighters][34]
[There are other feathered folk who seem to delight in the cold][118]
[Here in a little tangle of tiny undergrowth and brown leaves, with a fallen trunk for overhead shelter, you might find him any forenoon][132]
[You may ... get a glimpse of the weasel-like head of one lifted above the bank as he sniffs the breeze for game and enemies][160]
[He lifted his head high, fluffed out those glossy black neck feathers and strutted][179]
[He was in and out again in a jiffy][182]

SNUGGING-DOWN DAYS