(This section should be introduced here as a “loitering-place” of the saunterer as well as of the brook,--a rest in the journey of the waters when they linger placidly in the old mill-pond, backing-up from the dam, and flooding the lowlands. Although it might be brought in between the mountain-lake and the brook.) Consider the Black Mountain Swamp for example; Beaver dam, Lenox. Cotton sedge; Sarracenia; Pond lilies; Sphagnum. A Quaint Cradle. Nest of Reed Warbler or other bird built among reeds or rushes. Musk-rat Huts. A Musquash Village. Muskrat’s bubble under the ice, driven away from its heath. See “Trapper”; also Thoreau. The provident musk-rat. Scouts. Spring Heralds. Skunk cabbage. Winter Botany. Crystalline Botany; Thoreau. It is the anatomy which determines the marked character and distinct individuality of plants, even of the same genus. The winter phantoms present its most perfect and unencumbered articulation, and render their forms against the snow especially conspicuous. Thus have I counted, without effort, eight species of golden-rod, growing in a tangle each as distinctly specific as in its summer dress and ornament. A Frost Grotto. Will o’ the Wisp. A fantasy with fairies, nymphs, or naiads. Haunt of the Hylas. Cranberry Culture. The Cranberry plant. After Bullfrogs. Spatter Dock, turtles, etc.; turtles on a projecting log or rock, family group. Pollywogs. Duckweed. Specimen of similar plant. Green shell-like, nerve-like leaf, floating on surface and sending downward a fringe of purplish black rootlets. Found at Washington, spring of 1882. A Living Opal. A fairy creature of the marsh. This is described in my note-book about two years ago, and I note that Mr. John Burroughs has discovered the same creature and has written of it under title “A Fairy,” in Scribner’s, January, 1883. Pickerel Weed and Pickerel. Vallisneria--Anacharsis; waterweed. Swamp plants for selection. (Here follows a list of some twenty plants.) Transformation of Neuroptera. Exquisite Bivalves in the mud (small pearly clams). _The Brook (Continued)_ The Millpond. The Water adder (see notes Lake Winnepesaukee). Nymphæ; maids of the pond (nymphs floating in mist above the floating lilies. See John Lafarge, portfolio proofs). Among the Pond-lilies. The Lotus-lily with cup capsule. Allied to Eastern lily. Suggestion of the Nile. Mirror of the Sunset. (Reflections. Still pond. Mill dam.) The Heron. Winter Sports on the Ice. Fishing. Harvesting the Ice-crop. Waiting for a Bite (comic character). (See Wordsworth “To win a pittance from the cold, unfeeling lake.”) The Grist-Mill. The Miller. (A character from life; Standing at window of mill door. “The mills of the gods.”) Under the Fall. (Foam. Bubbles that reflect the glories of the world.) Swallows. (Skimming over water. “Swallows skating on the air.”) Below the Dam. The Ripples. The marriage of the Waters; (see Poem, Burns). The Camp. Shad-fishing. _The River_