Excerpt from In New England Fields and Woods It is quite as likely that the Open lands are still under the worn and dusty blanket of snow, smirched with all the litter cast upon it by cross-lot-faring teams, and win try winds blowing for months from every quarter. The same untidiness pervades all outdoors. We could never believe that so many odds and ends could have been thrown out of doors helter-skelter, in three months of ordinary life, till the proof confronts us on the surface of the subsiding snow or lies stranded on the bare earth. The wind comes with an icier breath from the wintrier north, and yet blows untempered from the south, over fields by turns frozen and sodden, through which the swollen brooks rush in yellow torrents with sullen monotonous complaint. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

In New England Fields and Woods Rowland Evans Robinson

Excerpt from Little Beasts of Field Wood I had a practical demonstration of this last autumn when I attempted to step across on a fallen maple which had evidently heen there longer than I had supposed. It crumhled heneath me, and I went down until the water reached my waist hut even then I had failed to touch hottom. By grasping a convenient sapling, [managed to get myself out without much dificulty. In doing so, kicked out heneath the hanks as far as my legs would reach without touch ing anything more suhstantial than water-soaked roots and leaves, and further investigation along the same hrook convinced me that the greater part of the swamp (which is several miles in extent) is still in the earlier stages of growth, while most of the other swamps in the vicinity are much farther advanced in the process of earth-making. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Stories of Woods and Fields Hans and Gretchen used to watch for him every morning on their way to school. Sometimes they heard him hammering, and saw him at his work; at other times he was going to market, or eating his breakfast, when they passed. They loved him, because they were little Ger man children who had not been long in America, and he always wore the colors of. Their German flag, - red, white, and black. The other children called him the red-headed woodpecker, but to Hans and Gretchen he was always the flag bird. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"[...] VIII THE CHIPMUNK As the woodchuck sleeps away the bitterness of cold, so in his narrower chamber sleeps the chipmunk. Happy little hermit, lover of the sun, [...]."