Summer

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Sharp Dallas Lore. Summer

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. THE SUMMER AFIELD

CHAPTER II. THE WILD ANIMALS AT PLAY

CHAPTER III. A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO SEE THIS SUMMER

CHAPTER IV. THE COYOTE OF PELICAN POINT

CHAPTER V. FROM T WHARF TO FRANKLIN FIELD

CHAPTER VI. A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO HEAR THIS SUMMER

CHAPTER VII. THE SEA-BIRDS’ HOME

CHAPTER VIII. THE MOTHER MURRE

CHAPTER IX. MOTHER CAREY’S CHICKENS

CHAPTER X. RIDING THE RIM ROCK

CHAPTER XI. A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO DO THIS SUMMER

CHAPTER XII. THE “CONY”

NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS

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The word summer, being interpreted, means vacation; and vacation, being interpreted, means – so many things that I have not space in this book to name them. Yet how can there be a vacation without mountains, or seashore, or the fields, or the forests – days out of doors? My ideal vacation would have to be spent in the open; and this book, the larger part of it, is the record of one of my summer vacations – the vacation of the summer of 1912. That was an ideal vacation, and along with my account of it I wish to give you some hints on how to make the most of your summer chance to tramp the fields and woods.

For the real lover of nature is a tramp; not the kind of tramp that walks the railroad-ties and carries his possessions in a tomato-can, but one who follows the cow-paths to the fields, who treads the rabbit-roads in the woods, watching the ways of the wild things that dwell in the tree-tops, and in the deepest burrows under ground.

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“I s’pose you know what that is?” he said.

“Yes,” replied the applicant, with conviction; “that is a Coccinella septempunctata.”

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