Part 6

My tame Skunks 103

Red-squirrel storing mushrooms for winter use 134

Chink stalking the Picket-pin 135

The Snowshoe Hare is a cross between a Rabbit and a Snowdrift 150

The Cottontail freezing 151

The Baby Cottontail that rode twenty miles in my hat 162

Snowshoe Rabbits dancing in the light of the lantern 163

Snowshoe Rabbits fascinated by the lantern 170

The Ghost Rabbit 171

The Coney or Calling Hare 178

The Coney barns full of hay stored for winter use 179

(a) Tracks of Deer escaping and (b) Tracks of Mountain Lion in pursuit 186

The Mountain Lion sneaking around us as we sleep 187

Sketch of the Bear Family as made on the spot 198

Two pages from my journal in the garbage heap 199

While I sketched the Bears, a brother camera-hunter was stalking me without my knowledge 206

One meets the Bears at nearly every turn in the woods 207

The shyer ones take to a tree, if one comes too near 210

Clifford B. Harmon feeding a Bear 211

The Bears at feeding time 218

(a) Tom Newcomb pointing out the bear's mark, (b) E. T. Seton feeding a Bear 219

Johnnie Bear: his sins and his troubles 222

Johnnie happy at last 223

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The Cute Coyote

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The Cute Coyote

AN EXEMPLARY LITTLE BEAST, MY FRIEND THE COYOTE