Part 3

Even he loves a listener 118

She flew across the pasture 121

Putting things to rights in his house 122

A very ordinary New England "corner" 124

They are the first to return in the spring 127

Where the dams are hawking for flies 130

They cut across the rainbow 135

The barn-swallows fetch the summer 137

From the barn to the orchard 138

Across the road, in an apple-tree, built a pair of redstarts 140

Gathered half the gray hairs of a dandelion into her beak 143

In the tree next to the chebec's was a brood of robins. The crude nest was wedged carelessly into the lowest fork of the tree, so that the cats and roving boys could help themselves without trouble 145

I soon spied him on the wires of a telegraph-pole 148

He will come if May comes 151

Within a few feet of me dropped the lonely frightened quail 152

On they go to a fence-stake 154

It was a love-song 156

But the pair kept on together, chatting brightly 161

In a dead yellow birch 163

So close I can look directly into it 164

Uncle Jethro limbered his stiffened knees and went chuckling down the bank 170

The big moon was rising over the meadows 173

Section of muskrat's house 174

The snow has drifted over their house till only a tiny mound appears 177

They rubbed noses 179

Two little brown creatures washing calamus 180

She melted away among the dark pines like a shadow 186

She called me every wicked thing that she could think of 189