Forest Neighbors: Life Stories of Wild Animals
William Davenport Hulbert
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(Forgotten Books, April 28, 2010)
INTRODUCTION Some thirty years ago, while out on one of his landlook-ing trips in the woods of Northern Michigan, my father came upon a little lake which seemed to him the loveliest that he had ever seen, though he had visited many in the course of his explorations. The wild ponds are very apt to be shallow and muddy, with low, marshy shores; but this one was deep and clear, and its high banks were clothed with a splendid growth of beech, maple and birch. Tall elms stood guard along the water's edge, and here and there the hardwood forest was broken by dark hemlock groves, and groups of lordly pine-trees, lifting their great green heads high above their deciduous neighbors. Only in one place, around the extreme eastern end, the ground was fat and wet and there the tamarack swamp showed golden yellow in October, and light, delicate green in late spring. Wild morning-glories grew on the grassy point that put out from the northern shore, and in the bays the white water-lilies wTable of Contents CONTENTS; PAGE; Introductionxi; The Biography of a Beaver1; The King of the Trout Stream41; The Strenuous Life of a Canada Lynx 83; Pointers from a Porcupine Quill125; The Adventures of a Loon163; The Making of a Glimmerglass Buck 199About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the difficult to read text.