Part 1

FOREST NEIGHBORS

"And the Northern Lights come down, To dance with the houseless snow; And God, Who clears the grounding berg, And steers the grinding floe, He hears the cry of the little kit-fox, And the lemming, on the snow."

RUDYARD KIPLING.

FOREST NEIGHBORS

Life Stories of Wild Animals

WILLIAM DAVENPORT HULBERT

Illustrated

Doubleday, Page & Co. Garden City New York 1914

Copyright, 1900, 1901, and 1902, by the S. S. Mcclure Co.

Copyright, 1902, by Doubleday, Page & Co.

To my Sister KATHARINE GRACE HULBERT

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION xi

THE BIOGRAPHY OF A BEAVER 1

THE KING OF THE TROUT STREAM 41

THE STRENUOUS LIFE OF A CANADA LYNX 83

POINTERS FROM A PORCUPINE QUILL 125

THE ADVENTURES OF A LOON 163

THE MAKING OF A GLIMMERGLASS BUCK 199

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Beaver Lumbering Frontispiece

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"On the grass in the warm, quiet sunshine of an autumn afternoon" 6

Building the Dam 22

Nesting Grounds 62

"He tried jumping out of the water" 72

"The hole was suddenly darkened, and a round, hairy face looked in" 100