Winter. Dallas Lore Sharp

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       CHAPTER IV

       CHAPTER V

       CHAPTER VI

       CHAPTER VII

       CHAPTER VIII

       CHAPTER IX

       CHAPTER X

       CHAPTER XII

       CHAPTER XIII

ILLUSTRATIONS

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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

INTRODUCTION

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