“A dainty little volume, exhaling the perfume and radiating the hues of both cultivated and wild flowers, echoing the songs of birds, and illustrated with exquisite pen pictures of bits of garden, field, and woodland scenery. The author is an intimate of nature. She relishes its beauties with the keenest delight, and describes them with a musical flow of language that carries us along from a ‘May Day’ to a ‘Winter Mood’ in a thoroughly sustained effort; and as we drift with the current of her fancy and her tribute to nature, we gather much that is informatory, for she has made a close study of the habits of birds and the legendry of flowers.”--_Richmond Dispatch._ THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. Several of the page numbers in the original list of illustrations are incorrect. Page numbers have been updated to reflect the correct page numbers for this eBook. End of Project Gutenberg's Dogtown, by Mabel "Barbara" Osgood Wright