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Any inspiring touch I have with Nature makes me less than half content with the best I can say of her. Beyond my increasing love for the rich, old Mother—yet eternally young and myriad formed—I am deeply indebted to F. Schuyler Mathews and his charming “Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music,” especially in suggestions and some illustrations for the “Birds’ Orchestra.” Other acknowledgements are made elsewhere in this little volume of verse, which chances to be my first, and therefore subject to the severer criticism.

C. J.

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Page The Author in his Retreat Bob-White in Colors ssss1 Cat Bird ssss1 Young Screech Owl ssss1 Humming Bird ssss1 White Throated Sparrows ssss1 Blue-Bird and Family ssss1 Young Male Cardinal ssss1 Thrasher’s Admiration ssss1 Cardinal in Colors ssss1 A Scene in Washington, N. C. ssss1 Baby Ambitious to Rise 18 Veery Celebrating the King’s Marriage 19 Hermit Thrush in Colors 21 Dove and Bluebirds, Swan, Zebra and Colt, Macaw, Chipmunk, Young Pet Thrasher 22 The Author’s Retreat in the Wild Wood 23 Young Green Heron 23 The Mocking-Bird in Colors 25 The Jay Bird and I 26 A Nigger and a Mule 29 Virginia’s Natural Bridge 30 A Perpetual King, Cotton Gin, A Cotton Mill 31 My Own Little Girl 33 My Butterfly 33 A Babe, Later an Imprisoned Boy 34 Feeding Young Mocking-Bird 35 Big Pinnacle on Pilot Mountain 36 Aurelius Augustinus 38 Two Little Orphans 42 Trouble and Play 43 Nature’s Fairy Crosses 46 Col. Diamond and Grand-daughter 47 The Wild Wood 48 A Pre-Revolutionary Stone Mansion, 7 Years Being Built 53 “Rock Ribbed Pen” in which Miss Martin was placed by the Tories 54 Blind Negro 56 Mistletoe 57 The Kid and the Cop 59-60 New River, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 63 Water Fall Near Tories’ Den, and Beach Scene 64 Chimney Rock in North Carolina 66 The Elephant Dance and Old Ship Church 67 The Bishop’s Garden 69 My Triolet 70 Lookout Mountain 72 Woodrow Wilson 75 O Baby Mine 77 The Snake That’s King 78 Notre Dame 79 Miss Cameron and Billy 83 Judge Franklin Chase Hoyt 84 Ann Gray and Pet Macaw 85 The Tots That Turned the Tide 87 Walter Malone 90

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