Produced by Bryan Ness, Jana Srna, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: W Hamilton Gibson (signed)] EYE SPY AFIELD WITH NATURE AMONG FLOWERS AND ANIMATE THINGS BY WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1899 Copyright, 1897, by HARPER & BROTHERS. _All rights reserved._ CONTENTS _A Naturalist's Boyhood_ _The Story of the Floundering Beetle_ _Fox-fire_ _A Homely Weed with Interesting Flowers_ _Two Fairy Sponges_ _Green Pansies_ _Mr. and Mrs. Tumble-bug_ _Those Horse-hair Snakes_ "_Professor Wiggler_" "_Cow-spit, Snake-spit, and Frog-spit_" _The Paper Wasp and His Doings_ _The Spider's Span_ _Ballooning Spiders_ _The Lace-wing Fly_ _The Perfumed Beetles_ _Mushroom Spore-prints_ _Some Curious Cocoons_ _Nettle-leaf Tent-builders_ _The Evening Primrose_ _The Dandelion Burglar_ _The Troubles of the House-fly_ _Tendrils_ _A Strange Story of a Grasshopper_ _Riddles in Flowers_ _Luck in Clovers_ _Barberry Manners_ _A Woolly Flock_ "_What Ails Him?_" _The Cicada's Last Song_ _Index_ List of Designs _Initial_ _Initial. Buttercup Leaves_ _Three Views of a Helpless Beetle _Down Among the Buttercup Leaves_ _An Adventurous Baby_ _The Adopted Home_ _Initial. Fox-fire and Fungus_ _A Luminous Fragment_ _Three Specimens by Day_ _Three Specimens by Night_ _A Fox-fire Bugaboo_ _The Bugaboo by Daylight_ _Initial. The Figwort_ _A Flower with Three Welcomes_ _Sipping the Nectar. Fig. 1_ _In Flight with Pollen. Fig. 2_ _Transferring the Pollen to Stigma. Fig. 3_ _Fifth Day--Pod Enlarging_ _Singular Method of Branching and Flowering_ _Initial_ _The Rose Mischief-maker_ _The Fairy Using Her Magic Wand_ _The Elfin Sponge of the Oak_ _The Real Fairy of the Oak Sponge_ _The Elfin Sponge of the Brier Rose_ _The Inhabited Rose Sponge_ _Initial. Pansies_ _The Materials_ _Making a Whole Plant Green_ _A Tumbler Concealed Near By_ _Initial. The Sacred Scarabæus_ _Mr. and Mrs. Tumble-bug Rolling the Ball_ _Sinking the Ball_ _Young Tumble-bug Digging out from His Dungeon_ _Initial_ _Amos_ _Dangerous Ground for Grasshoppers and Crickets_ _Busy Grasshoppers_ _Initial. Lilacs_ _"Professor Wiggler" at Home_ _The Lilac Twig in June_ _Tunnelling the Twig_ _"Professor Wiggler" Moth_ _Initial. Grasses and Weeds_ _The Home of the "Spume-bearer"_ _The Real Culprits_ _Initial. A Nest of the Paper Wasp_ _A Wolf in the Fold_ _He was Hanging Head Downward_