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Riverby Edition

THE WRITINGS
OF JOHN BURROUGHS
WITH PORTRAITS AND MANY ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME IV

LOCUSTS AND WILD HONEY

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge
Copyright 1879, 1895, 1904 and 1907
By John Burroughs

Mr. Burroughs


PREFACE

I AM aware that for the most part the title of my book is an allegory rather than an actual description; but readers who have followed me heretofore, I trust, will not be puzzled or misled in the present case by any want of literalness in the matter of the title. If the name carries with it a suggestion of the wild and delectable in nature, of the free and ungarnered harvests which the wilderness everywhere affords to the observing eye and ear, it will prove sufficiently explicit for my purpose.

ESOPUS-ON-HUDSON, N. Y.

                 CONTENTS                         

I.     THE PASTORAL BEES
II.    SHARP EYES
III.   STRAWBERRIES
IV.   IS IT GOING TO RAIN?
V.    SPECKLED TROUT
VI.   BIRDS AND BIRDS
VII.  A BED OF BOUGHS
VIII. BIRDS'-NESTING
IX.   THE HALCYON IN CANADA
        INDEX

  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS           

JOHN BURROUGHS
     From a photograph
WHIP-POOR-WILL
     From a drawing by L. A. Fuertes
TROUT STREAM
     From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason
YELLOW BIRCHES
     From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason
LEDGES
     From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason
KINGFISHER (colored)
     From a drawing by L. A. Fuertes

           

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