Roof and Meadow

Yes, but what if other woodchucks should seek other roof-trees in the peach row? They won't. There are no fashions, no such emulations, out-of-doors. Because one woodchuck moves...

BIRDS FROM A CITY ROOF 1 THE HUNTING OF THE WOODCHUCK 19 THREE SERMONS 31 THE MARSH 45 CALICO AND THE KITTENS 77 THE SPARROW ROOST 91 "MUX" 107 RACOON CREEK 121 THE DRAGON OF TH...

By noon I had completed a circle and recrossed the lighthouse road in the direction of the bay. A thin sheet of lukewarm water lay over all this section. The high spring tides h...

Calico clearly recognized some difference between the two kinds of kittens, but _what_ difference always puzzled her. She would clean up a kitten and comb it slick, then turn to...

Much of this unconcern, however, was a quiet kind of swagger. When he thought no one fiercer than a chicken or the humbled Mr. Tom was looking, he would shuffle across the yard...

It was blazing overhead, growing hotter and closer all the time, with hardly breeze enough to disturb the sleep of the leaf shadows on the sleepy stream. A rusty, red-bellied wa...