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Title: Wild Animals at Home

Author: Ernest Thompson Seton

Release Date: January 25, 2009 [EBook #27887]

Language: English

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WILD ANIMALS AT HOME

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| BY THE SAME AUTHOR |
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| THE BOOK OF WOODCRAFT AND INDIAN LORE |
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| WILD ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN |
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| TWO LITTLE SAVAGES |
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| BIOGRAPHY OF A GRIZZLY |
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| LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTHERN ANIMALS |
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| ROLF IN THE WOODS |
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| THE FORESTERS' MANUAL |
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[Illustration: I. A Prairie-dog town
_In N. Y. Zoo. Photo by E. T. Seton_]

_Wild
Animals
At Home_

_by_

_ERNEST THOMPSON SETON_

Author of "_Wild Animals I Have Known_,"
"_Two Little Savages_," "_Biography of a Grizzly_,"
"_Life Histories of Northern Animals_,"
"_Rolf in the Woods_," "_The Book of Woodcraft_."

Head Chief of the
Woodcraft Indians

_With over 150 Sketches and
Photographs by the Author_

_Garden City New York_
_Doubleday, Page & Company_
_1923_

_Copyright, 1913, by_
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON

_All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian_

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

Foreword

My travels in search of light on the "Animals at Home" have taken me up
and down the Rocky Mountains for nearl