THE WRITINGS OF JOHN BURROUGHS VOL. IV LOCUSTS AND WILD HONEY CONTENTS I. THE PASTORAL BEES II. SHARP EYES III. STRAWBERRIES IV. IS IT GOING TO RAIN? V. SPECKLED TROUT VI. BIRDS AND BIRDS VII. A BED OF BOUGHS VIII. BIRDS'-NESTING IX. THE HALCYON IN CANADA INDEX LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS JOHN BURROUGHS From a photograph WHIP-POOR WILL From a drawing by L. A. Fuertes TROUT STREAM From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason YELLOW BIRCHES From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason LEDGES From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason KINGFISHER (colored) From a drawing by L. A. Fuertes MY BOYHOOD By John Burroughs With A Conclusion By His Son Julian Burroughs CONTENTS FOREWORD MY BOYHOOD, BY JOHN BURROUGHS MY FATHER, BY JULIAN BURROUGHS PEPACTON THE WRITINGS OF JOHN BURROUGHS VOL. V By John Burroughs CONTENTS PREFACE PEPACTON I. A SUMMER VOYAGE II. SPRINGS III. AN IDYL OF THE HONEY-BEE IV. NATURE AND THE POETS V. NOTES BY THE WAY VI. FOOTPATHS VII. A BUNCH OF HERBS VIII. WINTER PICTURES INDEX IN THE CATSKILLS By John Burroughs With Illustrations From Photographs By Clifton Johnson CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I THE SNOW-WALKERS II A WHITE DAY AND A RED FOX III PHASES OF FARM LIFE IV IN THE HEMLOCKS V BIRDS'-NESTS VI THE HEART OF THE SOUTHERN CATSKILLS VII SPECKLED TROUT VIII A BED OF BOUGHS ILLUSTRATIONS A DISTANT VIEW OF SLIDE MOUNTAIN Frontispiece THE FOX-HUNTER AND HIS HOUND AT THE HEADWATERS OF THE DELAWARE Overlooking Mr. Burroughs's boyhood home FINDING A BIRD'S-NEST THE WITTENBERG FROM WOODLAND VALLEY A TROUT STREAM THE BEAVERKILL SOME PEOPLE OF THE CATSKILLS I. The Breath of Life 1 II. The Living Wave 24 III. A Wonderful World 46 IV. The Baffling Problem 71 V. Scientific Vitalism 104 VI. A Bird of Passage 115 VII. Life and Mind 131 VIII. Life and Science 159 IX. The Journeying Atoms 188 X. The Vital Order 212 XI. The Arrival of the Fit 244 XII. The Naturalist's View of Life 254 Index 291 THE LAST HARVEST By John Burroughs CONTENTS I. Emerson and his Journals 1 II. Flies in Amber 86 III. Another Word on Thoreau 103 IV. A Critical Glance into Darwin 172 V. What makes a Poem? 201 VI. Short Studies in Contrasts: 218 The Transient and the Permanent 218 Positive and Negative 219 Palm and Fist 220 Praise and Flattery 221 Genius and Talent 222 Invention and Discovery 223 Town and Country 226 VII. Day by Day 230 VIII. Gleanings 250 IX. Sundown Papers: 264 Re-reading Bergson 264 Revisions 266 Bergson and Telepathy 267 Meteoric Men and Planetary Men 270 The Daily Papers 272 The Alphabet 275 The Reds of Literature 276 The Evolution of Evolution 279 Following One's Bent 280 Notes on the Psychology of Old Age 281 Facing the Mystery 285 Index 291 THE WIT OF A DUCK AND OTHER PAPERS By John Burroughs