I began to turn slowly in my sepulchre and to gather up my benumbed limbs; I then made a rush and got up, and had a fairly good shot as the duck flew across my bows, but I failed to stop her. A man in the woods in the line of my shot cried out angrily, "Stop shooting this way!" I lay down again and faced the sun, that had now burned its way through the fog, till I was nearly blind, but no more ducks decoyed, and I called out to be relieved. With our one duck, but with many pleasant remembrances, we returned to Washington that afternoon. INDEX ABUTILON, or velvet-leaf. Ailanthus. Alder, white. Amaranth, 215. Arbutus, trailing, or mayflower. Arethusa. Arkville. Arnold, George. Ash. Asters. Azalea, pink, or pinxter-flower. Azalea, smooth. Azalea, white. Azalea, yellow. Ball, an inexpensive. Bark-a-boom. Baxter's Brook. Bay, sweet. Bear, black, attacked with a club. Bear-weed. Beattie, James, quotation from. Beaver, 173. Bee. See Bumblebee, Honey-bee, and Sweat-bee. Bee, solitary. Beech. Berries. Bidens, or two-teeth, or pitchforks. Big Beaver Kill. Big Mountain. Bindweed, black. Birch, yellow. Birds, singing at night; morning awakening of; individuality in the songs of; in poetry; process of hatching; leaving the nest; arrival in spring; love-making among; war among; their departure in the fall; a good season for; songs of, in America and in England. Birds of prey, their flight when laden. Blackbird, cow, or cowbird (MOLOTHRUS ATER). Blackbird, crow, or purple grackle (QUISCALUS QUISCULA). Blackbird, European, in poetry; his resemblance to the American robin; notes of. Blackbird, red-winged. See Starling, red-shouldered. Blackbird, rusty. See Grackle, rusty. Bladderwort, horned. Bluebird (SIALIA SIALIS), in poetry; notes of; nest of. Blue-weed, or viper's bugloss; travels of; description of. Boat, a picturesque. Bobolink (DOLICHONYX ORYZIVORUS; as a wooer; notes of. Bob-white. See Quail. Bouncing Bet, or saponaria. Boys. Bryant, William Cullen; as a poet of nature; quotations from. Buckwheat, wild. Bugloss. Bugloss, viper's. See Blue-weed. Bullfrog. Bumblebee; nest of. Bunting, English. Bunting, indigo. See Indigo-bird. Bunting, snow, or snowflake (PASSERINA NIVALIS). Burdock. Burns, Robert, quotation from. Butt End. Buttercup. Caledonia springs. Calopogon. Camping; in the rain. Campion, bladder. Cardinal (CARDINALIS CARDINALIS); notes of. Cardinal flower. See Lobelia, scarlet. Carrot, wild. Catbird (GALEOSCOPTES CAROLINENSIS), in poetry; notes of. Catnip. Catskill Mountains. Cattle, crossing a river; as eaters of weeds. Cedar-bird, or cedar waxwing (AMPELIS CEDRORUM. Chamomile. Chewink, or towhee (PIPILO ERYTHROPHTHALMUS). Chickadee (PARUS ATRICAPILLUS); nest of. Chickweed; at the antipodes. Chicory, or succory; in poetry. Chipmunk. Chippie. See Sparrow. Chough. Cicada, or harvest-fly. Claytonia, or spring beauty. Clematis, wild.