I bob for fish by the forest brook, I hunt for game in the trees, For bigger birds than wing the air Or fish that swim the seas. A rodless Walton of the brooks A bloodless sportsman, I-- I hunt for the thoughts that throng the woods, The dreams that haunt the sky. The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song; To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game The streams and the woods belong. There are thoughts that moan from the soul of the pine, And thoughts in a flower bell curled; And the thoughts that are blown with the scent of the fern Are as new and as old as the world. --SAM WALTER FOSS. A BOOK BY THE BROOK. Give me a nook and a brook, And let the proud world spin round; Let it scramble by hook or by crook For wealth or name with a sound, You are welcome to amble your ways, Aspirers to place or to glory; May big bells jangle your praise, And golden pens blazon your story; For me, let me dwell in my nook, Here by the curve of this brook, That croons to the tune of my book, Whose melody wafts me forever On the waves of an unseen river! --JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE. SUMMARY. Page 6. =WILSON'S SNIPE.=--_Gallinago delicata._ Other names: English Snipe, Jack Snipe, Gutter Snipe. RANGE--From Canada and British Columbia, south in winter to the West Indies, and even to South America. Breeds from the latitude of New England southward. NEST--Slight depression in the grass or moss of a bog. EGGS--Three to four; grayish-olive to greenish-brown, spotted and blotched with reddish-brown. ---- Page 10. =BLACK WOLF.=--_Canis occidentalis._ Found in Florida. ---- Page 14. =AMERICAN RED SQUIRREL.=--_Seiurus Hudsonius._ Other name: Chickaree, from its cry. Common in North America. ---- Page 18. =PRAIRIE HEN.=--_Tympanucus americanus._ Other name: Pinnated Grouse. RANGE--Prairies of the Mississippi Valley, east to Indiana and Kentucky, north to Manitoba, west to the eastern Dakotas, south to Texas and Louisiana. _T. cupido_, until lately supposed to be this species, is now apparently extinct, except on the island of Martha's Vineyard. NEST--On the ground in the thick prairie grass. EGGS--Eight to twelve, of tawn brown, sometimes with an olive brown hue, occasionally sprinkled with brown. ---- Page 27. =AMERICAN RABBIT.=--_Lepus sylvaticus._ Other names: Cottontail and Molly Cottontail. ---- Page 31. =OCELOT.=--_Felis pardalis._ Other name: Tiger-Cat. RANGE--From the southwestern United States to Patagonia.