The solemn quiet of the flat-woods seems to be on the whole thing, and it is no wonder that the songs the negroes sing while working in the woods have minor cadences in them. One must learn to know these lonesome and at first monotonous pine forests before he understands them and comes to love them. Once that is accomplished, their charm for him is perennial. The endearing aroma of the pines follows him far and seems most potent when the fervent warmth of spring suns turns his thoughts toward the cool winds of Northern hillsides. So long as the southwest winds follow his home-bound ship, so long he sniffs, or thinks he sniffs, the wild freedom of the pine levels, and the chant of the wind in the sparse tree tops seems to come to his ears and whine that wild, minor, endless tune of the elder world, fragments of which the care-free negroes chant as they gather the pitch and scar anew the bleeding trunks. It takes a change of weather and the rough burr of a northeaster to change this. Then he smells once more the cool brine swept far out of arctic seas. His ears lose the minor cadences and prick to welcome the major uproar of surf that bellows hoarse on Grand Manan and sends white surges playing follow-your-leader over the gray rocks of Marblehead, leaps the rough cliffs of Scituate and rolls in fluffy masses of spindrift far inland on the sands of Cape Cod. Then only is the charm broken and he breathes deep of the home wind and knows that it is blowing to him across a cool land, one yet but gray-green with the first impulses of spring, but dearer and more beautiful than all others. INDEX A Abu Kasim, 32. _Achrosticum aureum_, 117, 146. Adam, 155, 215, 232, 234, 236, 239, 276. Æneid, 168. Afreet, 32, 236, 237, 243. Ajax, 47. Alder, 156. Alice-in-Wonderland, 175. Allamanda, 234. Alligator, 102, 103, 104, 105, 108, 144, 145, 190, 222, 223, 224, 226, 227, 259, 260, 269. Amaryllis, 146. Amberjack, 251. Ampelopsis, 54. Amphion, 280, 281. _Anarcharis canadensis_, 32. Anastasia Island, 87. Andalusia, 94. _Andropogon_, 55. _Arctatus_, 56, 59. _Scoparius_, 56. Angel fish, 251, 252. Angleworm, 142. Anhinga, 159. _Anosia plexippus_, 19, 24. _Berenice_, 24. Apple, 49. Baldwin, 56. Apple, Custard, 176, 177. Golden, 49. Apple tree, 49. _Ardea wardi_, 163. Ash, swamp, 141, 142, 157. Aster, purple, 55. _Elliottii_, 55. B Bahamas, 108, 119, 127, 192, 208. Balthazar, 95. Bamboo, 141, 142. Bananas, 40, 86, 101, 105, 114, 150. Bass, 147, 150, 220, 225. Large-mouthed black, 142, 147. Northern, 150. Straw, 142, 149. Wide-mouthed, 151, 234, 257. Bayberry, 70, 88, 113. Beans, 109. Cherokee, 210. Bear, 84. Begonia, 113. Ben Hur, 248. Bethlehem, 94.