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THE STORY OF MY BOYHOOD AND YOUTH

BY
John Muir

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM SKETCHES
BY THE AUTHOR

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MlFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1913

BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY JOHN MUIR
Published March 1913


Contents

I. A BOYHOOD IN SCOTLAND

Earliest Recollections — The “Dandy Doctor” Terror — Deeds of Daring — The Savagery of Boys — School and Fighting — Birds'-nesting.

II. A NEW WORLD

Stories of America — Glorious News — Crossing the Atlantic — The New Home — A Baptism in Nature — New Birds — The Adventures of Watch — Scotch Correction — Marauding Indians.

III. LIFE ON A WISCONSIN FARM

Humanity in Oxen — Jack, the Pony — Learning to Ride — Nob and Nell — Snakes — Mosquitoes and their Kin— Fish and Fishing — Considering the Lilies — Learning to Swim — A Narrow Escape from Drowning and a Victory —Accidents to Animals.

IV. A PARADISE OF BIRDS

Bird Favorites — The Prairie Chickens — Water-Fowl — A Loon on the Defensive — Passenger Pigeons.

V. YOUNG HUNTERS

American Head-Hunters — Deer— A Resurrected Woodpecker — Muskrats — Foxes and Badgers — A Pet Coon — Bathing — Squirrels — Gophers — A Burglarious Shrike.

VI. THE PLOUGHBOY

The Crops — Doing Chores — The Sights and Sounds of Winter — Road-making — The Spirit-rapping Craze—Tuberculosis among the Settlers — A Cruel Brother — The Rights of the Indians — Put to the Plough at the Age of Twelve — In the Harvest-Field — Over-Industry among the Settlers —Running the Breaking-Plough — Digging a Well — Choke-Damp — Lining Bees.

VII. KNOWLEDGE AND INVENTIONS

Hungry for Knowledge — Borrowing Books — Paternal Opposition — Snatched Moments — Early Rising proves a Way out of Difficulties — The Cellar Workshop — Inventions — An Early-Rising Machine—Novel Clocks — Hygrometers, etc. — A Neighbor's Advice.

VIII. THE WORLD AND THE UNIVERSITY

Leaving Home — Creating a Sensation in Pardeeville — A Ride on a Locomotive — At the State Fair in Madison — Employment in a Machine-Shop at Prairie du Chien — Back to Madison — Entering the University — Teaching School — First Lesson in Botany — More            Inventions — The University of the Wilderness    



Illustrations

JOHN MUIR (PHOTOGRAVURE)  From a photograph  copyrighted by J. Edward B. Greene.
MUIR'S LAKE FOUNTAIN LAKE) AND THE GARDEN MEADOW
OUR FIRST WISCONSIN HOME
CLOCK WITH HAND RISING AND SETTING WITH THE SUN, INVENTED BY THE
                         AUTHOR IN HIS BOYHOOD

BAROMETER INVENTED BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS BOYHOOD
COMBINED THERMOMETER, HYGROMETER, BAROMETER, AND PYROMETER, INVENTED
                         BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS BOYHOOD

THE HICKORY HILL HOUSE, BUILT IN 1857
THERMOMETER INVENTED BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS BOYHOOD
SELF-SETTING SAWMILL. MODEL BUILT IN CELLAR. INVENTED BY THE AUTHOR
                       IN HIS BOYHOOD

MY DESK, MADE AND USED AT THE WISCONSIN STATE UNIVERSITY


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