. Pastoral days; or, Memories of a New England year. Natural history. WINTER. 141 fished the bugs and polly-wogs for our aquarium. Now it is shrunken and cold with crackling ice. Around its borders a thicket of black alder grows, its close-clinging scarlet berries, half hid in summer by the overhanging foliage, now seen in all their brilliancy and profusion, the brightest touches of color in nature's winter landscape. Soon we are walking over the soft and silent carpet in the pine grove's sombre shelter, stopping for one brief moment to listen to the sighing wind overhead, and to inhale one lo
. Pastoral days; or, Memories of a New England year. Natural history. WINTER. 141 fished the bugs and polly-wogs for our aquarium. Now it is shrunken and cold with crackling ice. Around its borders a thicket of black alder grows, its close-clinging scarlet berries, half hid in summer by the overhanging foliage, now seen in all their brilliancy and profusion, the brightest touches of color in nature's winter landscape. Soon we are walking over the soft and silent carpet in the pine grove's sombre shelter, stopping for one brief moment to listen to the sighing wind overhead, and to inhale one long and lasting whiff of the delicious invigorating aroma of the trees. Once more out in the open, our attention is arrested by a little stain of blood upon the "% SUNSHINE AND SHADOW IN THE WOODS. Leading to the spot we see a row of tiny imprints of some little field-mouse, and the white sur- face in close vicinity is ruffled and disturbed. A cruel tragedy has been committed here, and its evidence is plain, for there is but one line of wee footprints from the little hole beneath the stump near by—no return. Poor little fellow! I wish I had beneath my foot the sharp-eyed owl that surprised you in your little antics on the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896. New York, Harper & Brothers
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