Long holds that no two crows are alike and that every wild animal has a character of its own, and he sets out to show it. Sketches follow the tricks of foxes, a merganser and her brood, Br’er Rabbit’s habits, an oriole building its nest, beavers at work, and the politics of crows, each drawn from his own long hours of watching.
Popular nature writing of the 1890s; Long’s later books drew John Burroughs’s charge of “nature faking,” so read his animals’ cleverness with care. Download the free EPUB.