Dedication
To My People
A List of the Full-Page Drawings in the Book
PAGE The Animal Story 13 “The sniffings of the baffled bear or tiger” 17 “The inscrutable eyes of all the cats” 25 The Moonlight Trails 31 “All the players were motionless, with ears one way” 37 “It was beyond his reach” 49 The Lord of the Air 53 “He saw his wide-winged mate, too, leave the nest” 57 “Holding the fish firmly in the clutch of one great talon” 65 “Helplessly intertangled in the meshes” 79 “They flocked blackly about with vituperative malice” 83 Wild Motherhood 91 “Led his herd off northward” 95 “Stood for a moment to sniff the air” 99 “Around its rim circled the wary mother” 105 The Homesickness of Kehonka 115 “He would stand motionless, his compact, glossy head high in air” 125 “Fell with a great splash into the channel of the Tantramar” 133 “The discourager of quests darted stealthily forth” 137 Savoury Meats 141 “Two green eyes, close to the ground” 153 The Boy and Hushwing 157 “He struck the empty air” 165 “Settled himself, much disconcerted, on the back of an old haircloth sofa” 171 A Treason of Nature 179 “He gave answer at once to the summons” 187 “Started in mad haste down the shore” 189 “He dug his claws deeper into the bark, and bared his fangs thirstily” 191 The Haunter of the Pine Gloom 197 “The big beast little imagined himself observed” 203 “A great lynx landed on the log” 207 “Presently the lucifee arose and began creeping stealthily closer” 213 “A silent gray thunderbolt fell upon him” 217 “Yawned hugely, and stretched herself like a cat” 223 “Mounted the carcass with an air of lordship” 229 The Watchers of the Camp-Fire 239 “His big, spreading paws carried him over its surface as if he had been shod with snow-shoes” 243 “He pushed the ball again, very, very delicately” 249 “Stole noiselessly toward the shining lovely thing” 259 When Twilight Falls on the Stump Lots 271 “She struggled straight toward the den that held her young” 281 The King of the Mamozekel 285 “The calf stood close by, watching with interest” 293 “The mother mallard would float amid her brood” 301 “But they fell short of their intended mark” 309 “Thick piled the snows about the little herd” 319 “Was off through the underbrush in ignominious flight” 335 “It was fear itself that he was wiping out” 343 In Panoply of Spears 347 “The bear eyed him for some moments” 353 “A weasel glided noiselessly up to the door of the den” 369