boy's instinct.

If they speak to other boys, as to fellow explorers in the always new
world, if they bring back to older children happy memories of a golden
age when nature and man were not quite so far apart, then there will
be another pleasure in having written them.


My thanks are due, and are given heartily, to the editors of _The
Youth's Companion_ for permission to use several sketches that have
already appeared, and to Mr. Charles Copeland, the artist, for his
care and interest in preparing the illustrations.

WM. J. LONG.

ANDOVER, MASS., June, 1899.




CONTENTS.

PAGE

I. FOX-WAYS 1
II. MERGANSER 27
III. QUEER WAYS OF BR'ER RABBIT 41
IV. A WILD DUCK 55
V. AN ORIOLE'S NEST 69
VI. THE BUILDERS 77