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WILDWOOD WAYS

BY

WINTHROP PACKARD

AUTHOR OF "WILD PASTURE!"

 
The muscrats have built higher than common this year

BOSTON

SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1909
BY SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)
Entered at Stationers' Hall
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. 

THE author wishes to express his thanks to the "Boston Transcript" for permission to re­print in this volume matter which was originally contributed to its columns. 

CONTENTS 

SNUGGING-DOWN DAYS

CERTAIN WHITE-FACED HORNETS

THIN ICE

WINTER FERN-HUNTING

THE BARE HILLS IN MIDWINTER

SOME JANUARY BIRDS

WHEN THE SNOW CAME

THE MINK'S HUNTING GROUND

IN THE WHITE WOODS

THE ROAD TO MUDDY POND

AMONG THE MUSKRAT LODGES

THICK ICE

ILLUSTRATIONS

The muskrats have built higher than common this year 

Their paper fort . . . had by September grown to the dimensions of a water-bucket and contained a prodigious swarm of valiant fighters 

There are other feathered folk who seem to delight in the cold 

Here in a little tangle of tiny undergrowth and brown leaves, with a fallen trunk for overhead shelter, you might find him any forenoon 

You may . . . get a glimpse of the weasel-like head of one lifted above the bank as he sniffs the breeze for game and enemies 

He lifted his head high, fluffed out those glossy black neck feathers and strutted