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The feast is finished and the games are on	Frontispiece
The cheerful little goldfinches, that bend the dried ragweeds	7
There she stood in the snow with head high, listening anxiously And—dreamed	16
I shivered as the icy flakes fell thicker and faster	22
The meadow-mouse	25
It was Whitefoot	30
From his leafless height he looks down into the Hollow	33
Uncle Jethro limbered his stiffened knees and went chuckling down the bank	36
The big moon was rising over the meadows	39
Section of muskrat's house	40
The snow has drifted over their house till only a tiny mound appears	43
They rubbed noses	45
Two little brown creatures washing calamus.	46
They probe the lawns most diligently for worms	57
Even he loves a listener	58
She flew across the pasture	61
A very ordinary New England "corner"	64
They are the first to return in the spring	67
Where the dams are hawking for flies	70
They cut across the rainbow	75
The barn-swallows fetch the summer	77
From the barn to the orchard	78
Across the road, in an apple-tree, built a pair of redstarts	80
Gathered half the gray hairs of a dandelion into her beak	83
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	85
I soon spied him on the wires of a telegraph-pole	88
He will come if May comes	91
Within a few feet of me dropped the lonely frightened quail	92
On they go to a fence-stake	94
It was a love-song	96
But the pair kept on together, chatting brightly	101
In a dead yellow birch	103
So close I can look directly into it	104
"Spring! spring! spring!"	114
A wretched little puddle	117
Calamity is hot on his track	140
Bunny, meantime, is watching just inside the next brier-patch	143

The squat is a cold place	145
The limp, lifeless one hanging over the neck of that fox	148
His drop is swift and certain	153
Seven young ones in the nest	159
I knew it suited exactly	166
With tail up, head cocked, very much amazed, and commenting vociferously	168
In a solemn row upon the wire fence	171
Young flying-squirrels	172
The sentinel crows are posted	174
She turned and fixed her big black eyes hard on me	179
Wrapped up like little Eskimos	180
It is no longer a sorry forest of battered, sunken stumps	183
Even the finger-board is a living pillar of ivy	186
In October they are building their winter lodges	199
The glimpse of Reynard in the moonlight	202

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