Winter

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Sharp Dallas Lore. Winter

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. HUNTING THE SNOW

CHAPTER II. THE TURKEY DRIVE

CHAPTER III. WHITE-FOOT

CHAPTER IV. A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO SEE THIS WINTER

CHAPTER V. CHRISTMAS IN THE WOODS

CHAPTER VI. CHICKADEE

CHAPTER VII. A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO DO THIS WINTER

CHAPTER VIII. THE MISSING TOOTH

CHAPTER IX. THE PECULIAR ’POSSUM

CHAPTER X. A FEBRUARY FRESHET

CHAPTER XI. A BREACH IN THE BANK

CHAPTER XII. A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO HEAR THIS WINTER

CHAPTER XIII. THE LAST DAY OF WINTER

NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS

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You want no gun, no club, no game-bag, no steel trap, no snare when you go hunting the snow. Rubber boots or overshoes, a good, stout stick to help you up the ridges, a pair of field-glasses and a keen eye, are all you need for this hunt, – besides, of course, the snow and the open country.

You have shoveled the first snow of the winter; you have been snowballing in it; you have coasted on it; and gone sleigh-riding over it; but unless you have gone hunting over it you have missed the rarest, best sport that the first snowfall can bring you.

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Then, suddenly, as sometimes happens in the woods, the true meaning of the signs was fairly hurled at us, for down the hill, squealing and panting, rushed a full-sized gray squirrel, with a red squirrel like a shadow, like a weasel, at his heels.

For just an instant I thought it was a weasel, so swift and silent and gliding were its movements, so set and cruel seemed its expression, so sure, so inevitable, its victory.

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