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Title: Wild Folk

Author: Samuel Scoville

Release Date: January 19, 2013 [eBook #41880]

Language: English

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WILD FOLK

THE PINCUSHION OF THE WOODS

WILD FOLK

By SAMUEL SCOVILLE, Jr.
AUTHOR OF “EVERYDAY ADVENTURES”

With Illustrations by
CHARLES LIVINGSTON BULL
AND
CARTON MOOREPARK

The ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
BOSTON

Copyright, 1922, by
Samuel Scoville, Jr.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To my Son
Gurdon Trumbull Scoville
who has learned to know
and love so many of our Lesser Brethren
of Earth and Air and Water
this book is dedicated

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

WILD FOLK

I
THE CLEANLYS

All winter long the Barrens had slept still and white. Rows and regiments of low pitch-pine trees, whose blue-green needles grow in threes instead of the fives of the white or the twos of the Virginia pines, marched for miles and miles across the drifted snow. Through their tops forever sounded the far-away roar of the surf of the upper air, like the rushing of mighty wings, while overhead hung a sky whose cold blue seemed flecked with frost. The air tingled with the spicery of myriads of pine trees. Grim black