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Title: A Year in the Fields

Author: John Burroughs

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Language: English

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[Illustration: A HAWK IN SIGHT]

A Year in the Fields

SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS
OF JOHN BURROUGHS: WITH
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM
PHOTOGRAPHS
BY CLIFTON
JOHNSON

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

Copyright, 1875, 1877, 1879, 1881, 1886, 1894, and 1895,
BY JOHN BURROUGHS.

Copyright, 1896 and 1901,
BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

_All rights reserved_

NOTE

Taking advantage of the opportunity afforded by the necessity
for again reprinting _A Year in the Fields_, the publishers
have added to the volume a biographical sketch of Mr.
Burroughs and a number of new illustrations.

BOSTON, _September_, 1901.

CONTENTS

PAGE
JOHN BURROUGHS: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH vii
I. A SNOW-STORM 1
II. WINTER NEIGHBORS 13
III. A SPRING RELISH 41
IV. APRIL 67
V. BIRCH BROWSINGS 85
VI. A BUNCH OF HERBS.
FRAGRANT WILD FLOWERS 125
WEEDS 135
VII. AUTUMN TIDES