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WILD LIFE NEAR HOME
Wild Life Near
Home
By Dallas Lore Sharp
With Illustrations
By Bruce Horsfall
NEW YORK
The Century Co.
1901
Copyright, 1901, by
The Century Co.
Copyright, 1897, by The J. B. Lippincott Co.
Copyright, 1897, by Perry Mason & Co.
Copyright, 1898, by Frank Leslie's Publishing House.
Published October, 1901.
TO
MY WIFE
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| In Persimmon-time | 1 |
| Birds' Winter Beds | 31 |
| Some Snug Winter Beds | 47 |
| A Bird of the Dark | 65 |
| The Pine-tree Swift | 79 |
| In the October Moon | 95 |
| Feathered Neighbors | 111 |
| "Mus'rattin'" | 169 |
| A Study in Bird Morals | 185 |
| Rabbit Roads | 207 |
| Brick-top | 233 |
| Second Crops | 247 |
| Wood-pussies | 277 |
| From River-ooze to Tree-top | 295 |
| A Buzzards' Banquet | 321 |
| Up Herring Run | 341 |
I wish to thank the editors of "Lippincott's Magazine," "Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly," "Zion's Herald," and the "Youth's Companion" for allowing me to reprint here the chapters of "Wild Life Near Home" that first appeared in their pages.
ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| The feast is finished and the games are on | Frontispiece |
| Ripe and rimy with November's frosts | 5 |
| Swinging from the limbs by their long prehensile tails | 7 |
| Under such conditions he looks quite like a ferocious beast | 10 |
| Filing through the corn-stubs | 13 |
| Here on the fence we waited | 16 |
| He had stopped for a meal on his way out | 20 |
| Playing possum | |