Produced by Katherine Ward, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) By Rowland E. Robinson OUT OF BONDAGE. 16mo, $1.25. IN NEW ENGLAND FIELDS AND WOODS. 16mo, $1.25. DANVIS FOLKS. A Novel. 16mo. $1.25. UNCLE 'LISHA'S OUTING. 16mo, $1.25. A DANVIS PIONEER. 16mo, $1.25. SAM LOVEL'S BOY. 16mo, $1.25. VERMONT: A Study of Independence. In American Commonwealths Series. With Map. 16mo, gilt top, $1.25. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY, BOSTON AND NEW YORK. In New England Fields and Woods By Rowland E. Robinson _Boston and New York_ Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1896, BY ROWLAND E. ROBINSON. _All rights reserved._ TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED The weather and the changes of the seasons are such common and convenient topics that one need not apologize for talking about them, though he says nothing new. Still less need one make an apology if he becomes garrulous in relation to scenes which are now hidden from him by a curtain of darkness, or concerning some humble acquaintances with whom he was once on familiar terms, but who now and hereafter can only be memories, though they are yet near him and he may still hear their voices. So without excuse I offer this collection of sketches, which with a few exceptions were first published in the columns of "Forest and Stream." R. E. R. CONTENTS