ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
The Fox Sparrows’ Bath Frontispiece
Skunk Tracks 3
Cat Tracks 4
Tracks of Hare joined by Dogs 6
“In a burst of speed across the open field” 7
Dog Tracks in Four Inches of Snow 7
Tracks of the White-Footed Mouse 9
“A gray squirrel with a red squirrel at his heels” 11
Fox Tracks 12
Muskrat Trail 14
“Into the air they went” 26
White-Foot—“In the winter gales” 33
“Five wee mice” 35
White-Foot and the Hickory-Nuts 38
A Vireo’s Nest in Winter 40
“Wind-sweepings” 41
’Possum in the Persimmon Tree 50
Weasel—“Watching me from between the sticks” 58
“A chickadee!” 62
“Doing the excavating themselves” 69
Food for the Nuthatches 76
The Mourning-Cloak Butterfly, an Early Flitter 77
A Ruffed Grouse Trail 78
“The snow had melted from the river meadows” 80
“Carrying a big bob-tailed vole out of my ‘mowing’” 85
“Scurrying through the tops of some pitch pines” 90
“All the afternoon the crows have been going over” 93
The Duck-billed Platypus, or Duck-Bill 97
The Echidna, or Porcupine Ant-Eater 98
“Standing before a large ’possum” 99
“Out she spilled and nine little ’possums with her” 100
“A great blue heron would beat ponderously across” 106
Meadow Mouse—“In a drifting catbird’s nest” 109
“A little figure in yellow oil-skins” 114
“Drew a limp little form out of the water” 121
Quail—“One of the covey calling the flock together” 127
“A flock of robins dashing into the cedars” 131
Pussy-Willows and Watercress 132
“The hazelnut bushes are in bloom” 133
Bluebird—“Like a bit of summer sky” 135