They probe the lawns most diligently for worms 57 Even he loves a listener 58 She flew across the pasture 61 A very ordinary New England "corner" 64 They are the first to return in the spring 67 Where the dams are hawking for flies 70 They cut across the rainbow 75 The barn-swallows fetch the summer 77 From the barn to the orchard 78 Across the road, in an apple-tree, built a pair of redstarts 80 Gathered half the gray hairs of a dandelion into her beak 83 In the tree next to the chebec's was a brood of robins. The crude nest was wedged carelessly into the lowest fork of the tree, so that the cats and roving boys could help themselves without trouble 85 I soon spied him on the wires of a telegraph-pole 88 He will come if May comes 91 Within a few feet of me dropped the lonely frightened quail 92 On they go to a fence-stake 94 It was a love-song 96 But the pair kept on together, chatting brightly 101 In a dead yellow birch 103 So close I can look directly into it 104 "Spring! spring! spring!" 114 A wretched little puddle 117 Calamity is hot on his track 140 Bunny, meantime, is watching just inside the next brier-patch 143 The squat is a cold place 145 The limp, lifeless one hanging over the neck of that fox 148 His drop is swift and certain 153 Seven young ones in the nest 159 I knew it suited exactly 166 With tail up, head cocked, very much amazed, and commenting vociferously 168 In a solemn row upon the wire fence 171 Young flying-squirrels 172 The sentinel crows are posted 174 She turned and fixed her big black eyes hard on me 179 Wrapped up like little Eskimos 180 It is no longer a sorry forest of battered, sunken stumps 183 Even the finger-board is a living pillar of ivy 186 In October they are building their winter lodges 199 The glimpse of Reynard in the moonlight 202