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NATURE’S YEAR

Books by John Hay:

A PRIVATE HISTORY THE RUN NATURE’S YEAR

JOHN HAY

NATURE’S YEAR

The Seasons of Cape Cod

ILLUSTRATED BY DAVID GROSE

1961 Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 61-8166 Copyright © 1961 by John Hay All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition

For Kristi, Susan, Kitty, Rebecca, and Charles Mark--with me on this journey through the year

Contents

July 11

A Start on Cape Cod--An Entry--Other Lands within the “Narrow Land”

August 25

A Wild Home Land--The Musicians--A Walk with an Oven Bird--Toward the Sea

September 47

Youth on the Move--An Open Shore--Chipmunks

October 61

Where Is Home?--The Field of Learning--Colors of the Season--The Last Day in October

November 81

The Seed in the Season--The Clouds--The Inconstant Land--The Dead and the Living

December 97

An Old Place, an Old Man--Night in the Afternoon--Two Encounters

January 113

Exposure--Ice on the Ponds--Contrast and Response

February 127

Secrets in the Open--The Sea in the Ground--Need--Death, Man Made

March 143

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