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My abiding-place at the time my story begins differed materially from the picturesque "small gray house facing the morning light, " being a modern structure which offered the rare combination of a comfortable home in the edge of an undisturbed forest, completely secluded from roads and their traffic, yet within two minutes' reach of the common way to the village. The outlook from my window was into the tops of tall spruces and firs, relieved h...

Excerpt from Little People of Asia There are many queer things in this big world of ours, but there's nothing queerer, I think, than the way children live in different parts of it. I have always wondered how the little Turks pass away their time, what they play with, and how they feel, bundled up like rolls of dry-goods. I have great curiosity to know how it would feel to be a China girl or boy, and have feet three inches long, or the hair a...

Excerpt from Little Brothers of the Air To study a nest is to make an acquaintance. However familiar the bird, unless the student has watched its ways during the only domestic period of its life, - nesting time, - he has still something to learn. In fact, he has almost everything to learn, for into those few weeks is crowded a whole lifetime of emotions and experiences which fully bring out the individuality of the bird. Family life is a test...

Excerpt from A Bird-Lover in the West The studies in this volume were all made, as the title indicates, in the West, part of them in Colorado (1891), in Utah (1893), and the remainder (1892) in what I have called "The Middle Country, " being Southern Ohio, and West only relatively to New England and New York, where most of my studies have been made. Several chapters have appeared in the "Atlantic Monthly" and other magazines, and in the "Ind...

Excerpt from The Second Book of Birds: Bird FamiliesI retain the old arrangement of the families because that brings the more familiar and inter esting birds first, and my aim is, first to interest, and then to instruct.The scientific names of Families and Species as given in the Table of Contents are according to the check-list of the American Ornithologists'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classi...

Excerpt from The First Book of Birds: With Eight Colored and Twelve Plain Plates and Twenty Figures in the TextWith this purpose in view I have expanded my Children's Talks into this little book, to be used as an introduction to one of the most fascinating and delightful of studies.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an i...

Excerpt from Four-Handed Folk I was told that it was a night monkey, that a sailor had brought it from Africa as a pet, and they had bought it from him. A night monkey! I had no desire for a monkey, full of pranks and mischief, in my houseful Of birds, still less for one who would carry on his performances at night. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbook...

Excerpt from Kristy's Surprise Party Kristy was spending the day with her Aunt Lu. She had been all winter with her grandmother down in the village, and to-morrow she was going home to begin school again. It was her birthday, and in honor of the occasion, she wore her prettiest white dress, and her daintiest blue ribbons, and at the moment my story begins, she was curled up on the bamboo lounge on the piazza reading a story. Kristy dearly lo...

Excerpt from Upon the Tree-Tops In the beginning of my study of bird life, when I had a bird-room for close observation, I was interested to see that our little neighbors in feathers possess as much individuality of character as ourselves, and in Chapters XII. and XIII. of this volume I offer two studies of that period, illustrative of the point. Thanks are due to Mr. Frederic A. Ober for the use of his notes on one of the solitaires, embodi...

Excerpt from Bird-Ways IN ofiering to bird-lovers these studies from life, I wish to say that with the exception of an incident or two properly credited every thing herein recorded came under my own ob servation, and is literally and entirely true so far as the fact is concerned, I may have some times misunderstood the motives oi the little actors in the drama, but the account of their actions may be implicitly relied upon. About the Publish...

Excerpt from The Woman's Club: A Practical Guide and Hand-Book A warm lover of the Woman's Club as I am, I feel that I can do my sisters - widely scattered over our broad land - no greater service than to give them the "Open Sesame" to the most useful, as well as the most delightful, of modern "Institutions." To that end I have prepared this volume, aiming to present, not only an interesting account of the variety of ways in which the Club Id...

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