As the night was gray, which foretells rain, so the morning breaks crimson, which announces it. No bird heralds this dawn, no chirping insect sends its voice questing through its shades. The sky hardly lightens up; it is rather that the darkness turns red. Nor does the light come from the sky when it does come. It wells up from the earth instead, for when the crimson is gone the sky is still black with shadows, while the pasture grows distinct in a gray outline wherein is no color. A stillness of expectation broods all things,--a stillness so intense that the first rain-drop sounds like a pistol-shot as it strikes a leaf near you. Then there is a volley and further silence for a brief space, followed by a crepitation all about you. Those first heavy drops have been followed by lighter ones, and this crepitation merges into a steady drumming, which becomes a low roar to your ears made sensitive by silence and faint sounds. The first of the fall rains has come, and the summer suffering of the pasture people is at an end. INDEX INDEX A Adder, flat-head, 128, 129 Admiral, white, 71, 72, 75, 78, 81 Alder, 5, 15, 40, 52, 82, 94, 108, 111, 112, 118, 140, 141, 158 black, 139 white, 35 Alice-in-Wonderland, 88 Ambergris, 40 Angle-worm, 94, 105, 106, 186 Ant, 158 Antiopa vanessa, 166 Aphids, 115 Arabian days, 81 Arabian Nights, 61, 79, 88 Arethusa, 83 Azalia, 4, 6, 33 B Bagdad, Caliph of, 76 Baptist, 53 Barberry, 32 Basilarchia astyanax, 71, 77, 79, 87 Basilarchia disippus, 161 Bass, rock, 96 Bayberry, 8, 33, 45 Bee, 85, 86, 137, 155, 156, 157, 158 bumble, 137 Beetles, 161 Berkshire hills, 135 Birch, 5, 8, 28, 29, 30, 93 Bittern, 142, 143 Blackberry, 56 high-bush, 33 Blackbird, 143 Bladderwort, 64 Blueberry, high-bush, 50, 51 Bluebird, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 184, 192 Blue Hill, 135, 140, 202, 203 Blue Hill Reservation, 80, 136 Bluejay, 226 Bobolink, 189 Brake, 43 Bream, 211 Bullhead, 101 Bulrush, 136, 138 Bunting, indigo, 189 Butterfly, angle-wing, 158 Anosia plexippus, 160, 165 Antiopa vanessa, 166 fritillaries, 159 meadow-brown, 158 monarch, 160, 161, 162, 171 mourning-cloak, 166 pearl crescent, 158 white admiral, 71, 72, 75, 78, 81 Button bush, 41, 140 C California, Gulf of, 213 Calvinists, 219 Camberwell beauty, 166 Carnations, 156 Cassandra, 52, 205 Cassius, 155 Catbird, 10, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 190, 191, 192 Caterpillar, 43 Cedar, 4, 5, 6, 15, 27, 29, 139, 140, 141, 202, 204, 205, 218 Ceylon, 213 Chewink, 14 Clams, fresh-water, 95, 196 Clethra, 4, 35, 153, 155, 156 Compositæ, 41 Coot, 183 Corydalus cornutus, 125 Cranberries, 139 Crow, 14, 18, 19, 20, 185, 187, 196, 197, 228 Cuckoo, 27, 225 D Daisy, 41 Delphos, 221 Demoiselles, 120, 121, 122, 124, 126, 127 Dionaea, 206