Part 2

UP HERRING RUN 341

I wish to thank the editors of "Lippincott's Magazine," "Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly," "Zion's Herald," and the "Youth's Companion" for allowing me to reprint here the chapters of "Wild Life Near Home" that first appeared in their pages.

DALLAS LORE SHARP.

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The feast is finished and the games are on Frontispiece

Ripe and rimy with November's frosts 5

Swinging from the limbs by their long prehensile tails 7

Under such conditions he looks quite like a ferocious beast 10

Filing through the corn-stubs 13

Here on the fence we waited 16

He had stopped for a meal on his way out 20

Playing possum 22

She was standing off a dog 26

The cheerful little goldfinches, that bend the dried ragweeds 37

There she stood in the snow with head high, listening anxiously 45

And--dreamed 46

I shivered as the icy flakes fell thicker and faster 52

The meadow-mouse 55

It was Whitefoot 60

From his leafless height he looks down into the Hollow 63

It caught at the insects in the air 71

Unlike any bird of the light 77

They peek around the tree-trunks 83

The sparrow-hawk searching the fences for them 88

In October they are building their winter lodges 103

The glimpse of Reynard in the moonlight 106

They probe the lawns most diligently for worms 117