Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 42199-h.htm or 42199-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42199/42199-h/42199-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42199/42199-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://archive.org/details/winterdallas00sharrich [Illustration: THE FOX SPARROWS' BATH (page 56)] The Dallas Lore Sharp Nature Series WINTER by DALLAS LORE SHARP Author of “The Fall of the Year,” “The Lay of the Land,” “The Face of the Fields,” etc. Illustrated by Robert Bruce Horsfall Boston New York Chicago Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Copyright, 1905, by Doubleday, Page and Company Copyright, 1906, by the Chapple Publishing Company Copyright, 1910, 1911, by Perry Mason Company Copyright, 1912, by the Golden Rule Publishing Company Copyright, 1912, by the Century Company Copyright, 1908, 1911, 1912, by Dallas Lore Sharp All Rights Reserved TO THE FOUR SMALL BOYS ON MULLEIN HILL WHO HUNT THE SNOW WITH ME CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ix I. HUNTING THE SNOW 1 II. THE TURKEY DRIVE 15 III. WHITE-FOOT 29 IV. A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO SEE THIS WINTER 39 V. CHRISTMAS IN THE WOODS 46 VI. CHICKADEE 61 VII. A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO DO THIS WINTER 74 VIII. THE MISSING TOOTH 80 IX. THE PECULIAR ’POSSUM 94 X. A FEBRUARY FRESHET 105 XI. A BREACH IN THE BANK 112 XII. A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO HEAR THIS WINTER 123 XIII. THE LAST DAY OF WINTER 129 NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS 137 ILLUSTRATIONS