Part 2

ILLUSTRAIONS

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The feast is finished and the games are on Frontispiece

The cheerful little goldfinches, that bend the dried ragweeds 7

There she stood in the snow with head high, listening anxiously And--dreamed 16

I shivered as the icy flakes fell thicker and faster 22

The meadow-mouse 25

It was Whitefoot 30

From his leafless height he looks down into the Hollow 33

Uncle Jethro limbered his stiffened knees and went chuckling down the bank 36

The big moon was rising over the meadows 39

Section of muskrat’s house 40

The snow has drifted over their house till only a tiny mound appears 43

They rubbed noses 45

Two little brown creatures washing calamus. 46

They probe the lawns most diligently for worms 57

Even he loves a listener 58

She flew across the pasture 61

A very ordinary New England "corner" 64

They are the first to return in the spring 67

Where the dams are hawking for flies 70

They cut across the rainbow 75

The barn-swallows fetch the summer 77

From the barn to the orchard 78

Across the road, in an apple-tree, built a pair of redstarts 80

Gathered half the gray hairs of a dandelion into her beak 83

In the tree next to the chebec's was a brood of robins. The crude nest was wedged carelessly into the lowest fork of the tree, so that the cats and roving boys could help themselves without trouble 85

I soon spied him on the wires of a telegraph-pole 88