159
VIII. A SHARP LOOKOUT 179

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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A HAWK IN SIGHT _Frontispiece_
RIVERBY, MR. BURROUGHS'S HOME ON THE HUDSON viii
"SLABSIDES" x
TRACKS IN THE SNOW 2
THE STUDY 8
OUT FOR A WALK 14
THE OLD APPLE-TREE 18
WINTER AT RIVERBY ON THE HUDSON 26
WOOD FOR THE STUDY FIRE 38
AN EVENING IN SPRING 42
AT THE STUDY DOOR 50
A WOODLAND BROOK 62
AN APRIL DAY 70
THE HOME OF A SPIDER 86
A BIRD SONG 98
IN THE WOODS 122
PICKING WILD FLOWERS 134
A FLOWER IN A WOODLAND ROADWAY 146
A STALWART WEED 156
AMONG THE ROCKS 160
ON THE EDGE OF A CATSKILL "SUGAR BUSH" 166
A CATSKILL ROADWAY 182
BEECHNUTS 194
(Mr. Burroughs's Boyhood Home seen in the distance.)
BY THE STUDY FIRE 206

JOHN BURROUGHS
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

BY CLIFTON JOHNSON

In the town of Roxbury, among the western Catskills, was born April 3,
1837, John Burroughs. The house in which he first saw the light was an
unpainted, squarish structure, only a single story high, with a big
chimney in the middle. This house was removed a few years later, and a
better and somewhat larger one, which still stands, was built in its
place. The situation is very pleasing