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“She made them gallop around an imaginary ring.”
G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1904
Love Letters of a Musician Later Love Letters of a Musician The Spinster Book Lavender and Old Lace Pickaback Songs The Shadow of Victory The Master’s Violin The Book of Clever Beasts
“She made them gallop around an imaginary ring” _Frontispiece_
“There was something very human in the grateful 36 look he gave me just before closing his eyes”
“Her little hand rested confidingly in his great 68 paw”
“She arrived on the fair, open page of my 94 observation ledger, sooty, panting, but thoroughly happy”
“Put the crotch under his wing, and with this 116 improvised crutch, went back to the cabin”
“Hoop-La sat beside me, with her hands on her 154 sides, rocking and swaying in a spasm of merriment”
“In plain sight of the whole school, punished him 186 severely with a lady’s slipper”
“Coquetting like lovers on a moonlight night” 204
Although practically all the Nature Books of recent years have been carefully studied in order to gather material for this volume, the author desires to make grateful acknowledgment of her indebtedness to the following works, which have proved particularly helpful and suggestive:
JOHN BURROUGHS: _Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers._ “Real and Sham Natural History,” _Atlantic Monthly_, March, 1903.
WILLIAM DAVENPORT HULBERT: _Forest Neighbours._
ERNEST INGERSOLL: _Wild Life of Orchard and Field._
WILLIAM J. LONG: _A Little Brother to the Bear._ _Beasts of the Field._ _Ways of Wood Folk._ _Wood Folk at School._ _Secrets of the Woods._ _Wilderness Ways._ “The Modern School of Nature Study and its Critics,” _North American Review_, May, 1903.
CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS: _The Heart of the Ancient Wood._ _The Kindred of the Wild._
ERNEST THOMPSON-SETON: _Wild Animals I Have Known._ _Lives of the Hunted._
MASON A. WALTON: _A Hermit’s Wild Friends._
I shall never forget the day I first saw him! That, indeed, was a day to be marked in my note-book with a red cross. I kept red ink and maltese ink in my cabin, to be used when things did or did not happen, as the case might be. By this simple method I was enabled to keep track of the notes suitable for the magazines which pay the best, reserving the others for the periodicals which reimburse their army of contributors at the starvation rate of a cent a word, no distinction being made between long and short words. It is depressing, when you think of it, that a long scientific name brings no more than a plain Anglo-Saxon word in one syllable, and that only a cent apiece is paid for new words coined for the occasion and which have never before been printed in any book.