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Contents
I. A BOYHOOD IN SCOTLAND 1
Earliest Recollections--The "Dandy Doctor" Terror--Deeds
of Daring--The Savagery of Boys--School and
Fighting--Birds'-nesting.
II. A NEW WORLD 51
Stories of America--Glorious News--Crossing the
Atlantic--The New Home--A Baptism in Nature--New
Birds--The Adventures of Watch--Scotch
Correction--Marauding Indians.
III. LIFE ON A WISCONSIN FARM 90
Humanity in Oxen--Jack, the Pony--Learning to Ride--Nob
and Nell--Snakes--Mosquitoes and their Kin--Fish and
Fishing--Considering the Lilies--Learning to Swim--A
Narrow Escape from Drowning and a Victory--Accidents to
Animals.
IV. A PARADISE OF BIRDS 137
Bird Favorites--The Prairie Chickens--Water-Fowl--A Loon
on the Defensive--Passenger Pigeons.
V. YOUNG HUNTERS 168
American Head-Hunters--Deer--A Resurrected
Woodpecker--Muskrats--Foxes and Badgers--A Pet
Coon--Bathing--Squirrels--Gophers--A Burglarious Shrike.
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