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A Watcher in The Woods

A Watcher in The Woods

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A WATCHER
IN THE WOODS

BY

DALLAS LORE SHARP

Author of "Wild Life Near Home"


WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY BRUCE HORSFALL

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NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.


Copyright, 1901, by
The Century Co.
Published November, 1903

3101

Printed in U. S. A.


TO
THE TWO LITTLE WATCHERS
AT HOME


PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Leading superintendents of schools and teachers have been pointing out that in "Wild Life Near Home," by Dallas Lore Sharp, there is much valuable supplementary reading for schools, and no less an authority than Mr. John Burroughs, in his recent article in the "Atlantic Monthly" entitled "Real and Sham Natural History," made the statement that "of all the nature books of recent years, I look upon Mr. Sharp's as the best."

The present volume will be found to contain carefully selected chapters from "Wild Life," arranged with special reference to nature study in the schools, where it is hoped that it will become popular with both teachers and pupils.

October 15, 1903


CONTENTS

  PAGE
Birds' Winter Beds 1
Some Snug Winter Beds 17
"Mus'rattin'" 35
Feathered Neighbors 51
From River-ooze to Tree-top 109
Rabbit Roads 135
Second Crops 161
In the October Moon 191

ILLUSTRATIONS

  PAGE
The feast is finished and the games are on Frontispiece
The cheerful little goldfinches, that bend the dried ragweeds 7
There she stood in the snow with head high, listening anxiously And—dreamed 16
I shivered as the icy flakes fell thicker and faster 22
The meadow-mouse 25
It was Whitefoot 30
From his leafless height he looks down into the Hollow 33
Uncle Jethro limbered his stiffened knees and went chuckling down the bank 36
The big moon was rising over the meadows 39
Section of muskrat's house 40
The snow has drifted over their house till only a tiny mound appears 43
They rubbed noses 45
Two little brown creatures washing calamus. 46
They probe the lawns most diligently for worms 57
Even he loves a listener 58
She flew across the pasture

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