Part 1

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Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: italics.

THE CLERK OF THE WOODS

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Books by Mr. Torrey.

THE CLERK OF THE WOODS. 16mo, $1.10, net. Postpaid, $1.20.

FOOTING IT IN FRANCONIA. 16mo, $1.10, net. Postpaid, $1.19.

EVERYDAY BIRDS. Elementary Studies. With twelve colored Illustrations reproduced from Audubon. Square 12mo, $1.00.

BIRDS IN THE BUSH. 16mo, $1.25.

A RAMBLER’S LEASE. 16mo, $1.25.

THE FOOT-PATH WAY. 16mo, gilt top, $1.25.

A FLORIDA SKETCH-BOOK. 16mo, $1.25.

SPRING NOTES FROM TENNESSEE. 16mo, $1.25.

A WORLD OF GREEN HILLS. 16mo, $1.25.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. BOSTON AND NEW YORK.

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THE CLERK OF THE WOODS

BRADFORD TORREY

“News of birds and blossoming.”

SHELLEY.

Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1904

Copyright 1903 by Bradford Torrey All Rights Reserved

Published September, 1903

PREFATORY NOTE

The chapters of this book were written week by week for simultaneous publication in the “Evening Transcript” of Boston and the “Mail and Express” of New York, and were intended to be a kind of weekly chronicle of the course of events out-of-doors, as witnessed by a natural-historical observer. The title of the volume is the running title under which the articles were printed in the “Evening Transcript.” It was chosen as expressive of the modest purpose of the writer, whose business was not to be witty or wise, but simply to “keep the records.”

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