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Chapter 10 THE GARTER-SNAKE

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gbirds have come to stay in spite of inhospitable weather that seems for days to set the calendar back a month, the woods invite you more than the fields. There nature is

there the tawny mat beneath is uplifted by the struggling plant life below it or pierced through by an underthrust of a sprouting seed. There is a promise of bloom in blushing arbutus buds, a promise even now fulfilled by the first squirrelcups just out of their furry bracts

have grown redder and plumper under every snow of the winter. This smoothly rounded mound and the hollow scooped beside it, brimful now of amber, sun-warmed water, mark t

m sprawled along the bottom on the leaf paving of their own color. As you cast a casual glance on your prospective seat, carelessly noting the mingling of many hues, the brightness of

not for the old, unreasoning antipathy, our hands would not be raised against him; and, if he were not a snake, we should call him beautiful in his stripes of black and gold, and in graceful motion-a motion that charms us in the undulation of waves, in their flickering reflections of sunlight on rushy margins and wooded

uge mouthful of twice or thrice the ordinary diameter of his gullet. If you chance to witness his slow and painful gorging of a frog, you hear a cry of distress that might be uttered with equal cause by victim or devourer. When he has fully entered upon the business of reawakened life, many a young field-m

more mischievous he is. The better he calls himself, the worse he is. For uncounted centuries the bison and the I

egend written on his gilded mail, "Evil to him who evil thinks." If this sunny patch of earth is not wide enough for you to share

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Contents

Chapter 1 THE NAMELESS SEASON Chapter 2 MARCH DAYS Chapter 3 THE HOME FIRESIDE Chapter 4 THE CROW Chapter 5 THE MINK Chapter 6 APRIL DAYS Chapter 7 THE WOODCHUCK Chapter 8 THE CHIPMUNK Chapter 9 SPRING SHOOTING Chapter 10 THE GARTER-SNAKE Chapter 11 THE TOAD
Chapter 12 MAY DAYS
Chapter 13 THE BOBOLINK
Chapter 14 THE GOLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKER
Chapter 15 JUNE DAYS
Chapter 16 THE BULLFROG
Chapter 17 No.17
Chapter 18 No.18
Chapter 19 No.19
Chapter 20 No.20
Chapter 21 FARMERS AND FIELD SPORTS
Chapter 22 TO A TRESPASS SIGN
Chapter 23 A GENTLE SPORTSMAN
Chapter 24 JULY DAYS
Chapter 25 CAMPING OUT
Chapter 26 THE CAMP-FIRE
Chapter 27 A RAINY DAY IN CAMP
Chapter 28 AUGUST DAYS
Chapter 29 A VOYAGE IN THE DARK
Chapter 30 THE SUMMER CAMP-FIRE
Chapter 31 THE RACCOON
Chapter 32 THE RELUCTANT CAMP-FIRE
Chapter 33 SEPTEMBER DAYS
Chapter 34 A PLEA FOR THE UNPROTECTED
Chapter 35 THE SKUNK
Chapter 36 A CAMP-FIRE RUN WILD
Chapter 37 THE DEAD CAMP-FIRE
Chapter 38 OCTOBER DAYS
Chapter 39 A COMMON EXPERIENCE
Chapter 40 THE RED SQUIRREL
Chapter 41 THE RUFFED GROUSE
Chapter 42 TWO SHOTS
Chapter 43 NOVEMBER DAYS
Chapter 44 THE MUSKRAT
Chapter 45 NOVEMBER VOICES
Chapter 46 THANKSGIVING
Chapter 47 DECEMBER DAYS
Chapter 48 WINTER VOICES
Chapter 49 THE VARYING HARE
Chapter 50 THE WINTER CAMP-FIRE
Chapter 51 JANUARY DAYS
Chapter 52 A NEW ENGLAND WOODPILE
Chapter 53 A CENTURY OF EXTERMINATION
Chapter 54 THE PERSISTENCY OF PESTS
Chapter 55 THE WEASEL
Chapter 56 FEBRUARY DAYS
Chapter 57 THE FOX
Chapter 58 AN ICE-STORM
Chapter 59 SPARE THE TREES
Chapter 60 THE CHICKADEE
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