Chapter M: A. Walton

_Gloucester, April 5, 1903._

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Nature _versus_ Medicine 11
II. Satan the Raccoon 30
III. Wabbles 52
IV. Bismarck, the Red Squirrel 67
V. Changes in Hermit-life 99
VI. The White-footed Mouse 118
VII. Three Years Later 136
VIII. The Crow 140
IX. Life in the Woods 156
X. Mr. and Mrs. Chewink 172
XI. Some of the Wild Things 190
XII. The Instinct of the Cowbird 208
XIII. Bee Hunting 223
XIV. Tiny 236
XV. The Chestnut-sided Warbler 253
XVI. Instinct 265
XVII. The Chickadees 282
XVIII. Triplefoot 295

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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The "Hermit" and His Home _Frontispiece_
Tree Sparrow 25
Fox Sparrow 27
Bay-winged Bunting 28
Blackbird 29
Raccoon's Head 30
"I begun by tying on a nut" 37
"With a savage snarl he sprang on to the dude" 47
Song Sparrow 52
"Wabbles made it his business to awake me at daylight" 54
Wabbles 65
Pigeon Hawk 69
"Many a sprinting match of this kind takes place
in my dooryard" 74
"The winter storehouse was completed" 85
Indigo-bird 96
Oven-bird 97
Black-throated Green Warbler 98
Cedar-bird 102
The New Cabin 103
Maryland Yellowthroat 104
Red-winged Blackbirds 104
Brown Thrush 105
Swamp Song-sparrow 106
Baltimore Oriole 107
Belted Kingfisher, Watching 109
Kingfisher, Striking 110
Kingfisher, Lifting His Catch 111
"The distance between them grew less quite rapidly" 114
"Hermit, you are out" 117
"It carries its victim by the middle" 125
Mole 131
Kingbird 141
Ruffed Grouse 145
"The next sentinel takes up the call" 151
"I shot two ducks" 158
Coot's Head 159
Chickadee 173
"I threw a bit of cookie to her" 174
English Sparrow 186
Sparrow 189
"Found his owlship on a low limb" 191
Owl Chased 193
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker 196
"HE Coiled Around My Arm" 202
Blue-winged Yellow Warbler 211
Bee Hunting 226
"Again the plucky little bunting set its wing
and lowered its head" 241
"Made his way to the box, hand over hand" 245
Chestnut-sided Warbler 254
Blue Jays 265
Wood Thrush 275
The Hermit Thrush 278
Triplefoot's Den 298
"She stopped to look around, and saw me" 303

A Hermit's Wild Friends

OR

Eighteen Years in the Woods

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