Wild Life Near Home - Dallas Lore Sharp

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       Dallas Lore Sharp

      Wild Life Near Home

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066156299

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       IN PERSIMMON-TIME

       BIRDS' WINTER BEDS

       SOME SNUG WINTER BEDS

       A BIRD OF THE DARK

       THE PINE-TREE SWIFT

       IN THE OCTOBER MOON

       FEATHERED NEIGHBORS

       I

       II

       III

       "MUS'RATTIN'"

       A STUDY IN BIRD MORALS

       RABBIT ROADS

       BRICK-TOP

       SECOND CROPS

       I

       II

       WOOD-PUSSIES

       FROM RIVER-OOZE TO TREE-TOP

       A BUZZARDS' BANQUET

       UP HERRING RUN

       Table of Contents

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The feast is finished and the games are on Frontispiece
Ripe and rimy with November's frosts 5
Swinging from the limbs by their long prehensile tails 7
Under such conditions he looks quite like a ferocious beast 10
Filing through the corn-stubs 13
Here on the fence we waited 16
He had stopped for a meal on his way out 20
Playing possum 22
She was standing off a dog 26
The cheerful little goldfinches, that bend the dried ragweeds 37
There she stood in the snow with head high, listening anxiously 45
And—dreamed 46
I shivered as the icy flakes fell thicker and faster 52
The meadow-mouse 55
It was Whitefoot 60
From his leafless height he looks down into the Hollow 63
It caught at the insects in the air 71
Unlike any bird of the light 77
They peek around the

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