Part 16

Moccasins, Indian, 121, 122. Mosquitoes, 113, 114. Mouse, European field, with young, 3. Mouse, meadow, or field, 106, 107; eaten by a horse, 107.

Muir, Anna, 56. Muir, Anne (Gilrye) (mother), 11, 15, 16, 20, 22, 23, 28, 49, 256, 259, 260, 263. Muir, Daniel (brother), 56, 115, 146, 223. Muir, Daniel (father), 10, 11, 24, 31, 43, 44, 49, 53-56, 58-61, 83, 90, 94-96, 100-102, 115, 148, 191, 195, 203, 205, 218, 222, 224, 226, 231-234; admonitions, 76, 77; Scotch correction, 84-87; as a church-goer, 107, 108; his advice as to swimming, 124; his ideas about books and the Bible, 241-244; rules as to going to bed and getting up, 245-251; his religious view of meals, 249, 250; and his son’s inventions, 253-258; his parting advice to his son, 262; theories on bringing up children, 263.

Muir, David, 11, 20-22, 43, 53, 54, 56, 62, 78, 85-87, 97, 110, 115, 125, 126, 223, 231, 263, 264; kills a deer, 172-174.

Muir, John, fondness for the wild, 1, 49, 50; earliest recollections, 1-3; first school, 3-10, 28-30; favorite stories in reading-book, 4-6; favorite hymns and songs, 9, 10; early fondness for flowers, 12-14; an early accident, 15, 16; bathing, 16, 17; boyish sports, 17-26, 40, 41; grammar school, 30-39; birds’-nesting, 44-48; early interest in America, 51-53; emigration to America, 53-59; settling in Wisconsin, 58-62; life on the Fountain Lake farm, 62-226; escaping a whipping, 84-87; learning to ride, 95-100; learning to swim, 124-129; ambition in mowing and cradling, 202, 223; put to the plough, 220, 221; hard work, 221-224; running the breaking plough, 227-229; life at Hickory Hill, 230-263; adventure in digging a well, 231-234; educating himself, 240-247; early rising proves a way out of difficulties, 245-251; inventions, 248-261; deciding on an occupation, 259-261; determines to take his inventions to the State Fair, 260-262; starting out into the world, 262-269; at the State Fair, 269-272; enters a machine-shop at Prairie du Chien, 272, 273; odd jobs at Madison, 273, 274; enters the University, 274-276; life at the University, 276-287; teaching school, 277-279; vacation work at Hickory Hill, 279; first lessons in botany, 280-283; more inventions, 283-286; enters the University of the Wilderness, 286, 287.

Muir, Margaret, 56, 253. Muir, Mary, 56. Muir, Sarah, 15, 56, 127. Muir’s Lake. See Fountain Lake. Muskrats, an Indian hunting, 81, 82; habits, 177-181.

Nighthawk, 69-71. Nob and Nell, the horses, 103-105, 107-109. Nuthatches, 144, 145. Nuts, 123, 124.

Oriole, Baltimore, 143. Owls, 145. Oxen, humanity in, 90-94.

Pardeeville, Wis., 263-266. Partridge, or ruffed grouse, drumming, 72. Pasque-flower, 119-121. Phrenology, 266. Pickerel, 116, 117. Pigeon, passenger, Audubon’s account, 52, 53, 162-166; extermination, 83; in Wisconsin, 158-162; Pokagon’s account, 166, 167.

Ploughing, 201, 202, 220, 221; the breaking plough, 227-229.

Plutarch’s Lives, 241, 242. Pokagon, his account of the passenger pigeon, 166, 167. Portage, Wis., 93, 94, 108. Prairie chickens, 145, 146. Prairie du Chien, 272, 273. Pucaway Lake, 147.

Quail. See Bob-white.

Rabbits, 181, 189. Raccoon, 170, 184, 185. Rails, splitting, 221, 222. Rattlesnakes, 110. Reid, Mr., 213, 214. Ridgway, Robert, 64. Road-making, 209. Robin, American, 139. Robin, European, 27, 28.

Scootchers, 20-22. Scotch, the, their ideas of self-punishment, 130, 131. Scotch, the language, 57. Scottish Grays, 27. Self-punishment, 130, 131. Settlers in Wisconsin, 211-220, 222-226. Shrike, a burglarious, 195-198. Siddons, Mungo, 8, 9, 12, 30. Skaters (insects), 115. Skylark, 46-48. Snake, blow, 111. Snakes, 110-112. Snipe, a case of difficult parturition, 134. Snipe, jack, 73. Snowstorms, 206. Southey, Robert, his “Inchcape Bell,” 5, 6. Sow, the old, 88, 89. Sparrow, song, 143. Spermophile, or ground squirrel, a frozen, 135, 136. Spirit-rappings, 210, 211. Squirrel, flying, 192. Squirrel, gray, 190-192. Squirrel, ground. See Gophers and Spermophile. State Fair, 260, 261, 269-272. Stirling, Professor, 275, 276. Strawberries, wild, 122. Sunfish, 116. Swamps, 208, 209. Swans, wild, 149. Swimming, 124-129.

Tanager, scarlet, 143. Thermometer, a large, 258, 259. Thrasher, brown, 139, 140. Thrush, brown. See Thrasher. Thunder-storms, 75, 76. Trap, the steel, 180. Tuberculosis, 212, 213. Turk’s-turban, 122. Turtle, snapping, 80.

Vaccination, 11.

Water-boatmen, 115. Water-bugs, 114. Water-lily, 118, 119. Well, digging a, 231-234. Whippings, 84-87. Whip-poor-will, 68, 69. Wiard, an inventor, 272, 273. Wilson, Alexander, account of fish hawk and bald eagle, 51, 52. Wind-flower, 119-121. Wisconsin, settling in, 58-62; life in, 62-287.

Woodpecker, red-headed, 66; drowning, 131-133; shot and resurrected, 175, 176.

Woodpeckers, nest-holes and young, 65, 66. Wrecks, 38, 39.

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