A Year in the Fields

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John Burroughs. A Year in the Fields

A Year in the Fields

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JOHN BURROUGHS

A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

BY CLIFTON JOHNSON

A YEAR IN THE FIELDS

I

A SNOW-STORM

II

WINTER NEIGHBORS

III

A SPRING RELISH

IV

APRIL

V

BIRCH BROWSINGS

VI

A BUNCH OF HERBS

FRAGRANT WILD FLOWERS

WEEDS

VII

AUTUMN TIDES

VIII

A SHARP LOOKOUT

The Riverside Press. Electrotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton & Co. Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Books by John Burroughs

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY. Boston and New York

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John Burroughs

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Still the storm rose. At five o'clock I went forth to face it in a two-mile walk. It was exhilarating in the extreme. The snow was lighter than chaff. It had been dried in the Arctic ovens to the last degree. The foot sped through it without hindrance. I fancied the grouse and the quail quietly sitting down in the open places, and letting it drift over them. With head under wing, and wing snugly folded, they would be softly and tenderly buried in a few moments. The mice and the squirrels were in their dens, but I fancied the fox asleep upon some rock or log, and allowing the flakes to cover him. The hare in her form, too, was being warmly sepulchred with the rest. I thought of the young cattle and the sheep huddled together on the lee side of a haystack in some remote field, all enveloped in mantles of white.

"I thought me on the ourie cattle,

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