are reproduced in
answer to the requests from many teachers that these be added to the
Wood Folk books. From these the reader can form his own conclusions as
to the relative importance of instinct and training, if he will. But
there is another and a better way open: watch the purple martins for a
few days when the young birds first leave the house; find a crow's nest,
and watch secretly while the old birds are teaching their little ones to
fly; follow a fox, or any other wild mother-animal, patiently as she
leaves the den and leads the cubs out into the world of unknown sights
and sounds and smells,--and you will learn more in a week of what
education means to the animals than anybody's theories can ever teach
you.

These are largely studies of individual animals and birds. They do not
attempt to give the habits of a class or species, for the animals of the
same class are alike only in a general way; they differ in interest and
intelligence quite as widely as men and women of the same class, if you
but watch them closely enough. The names here given are those of the
Milicete Indians, as nearly as I can remember them; and the incidents
have all passed under my own-eyes and were recorded in the woods, from
my tent or canoe, just as I saw them.

WILLIAM J. LONG.

STAMFORD, CONN., March, 1903.

CONTENTS

PAGE
WHAT THE FAWNS MUST KNOW 1

A CRY IN THE NIGHT 11

ISMAQUES THE FISHHAWK 31

A SCHOOL FOR LITTLE FISHERMEN 48

WHEN YOU MEET A BEAR 58

QUOSKH THE KEEN EYED 75

UNK WUNK THE PORCUPINE 111

A LAZY FELLOW'S FUN 124

THE PARTRIDGES' ROLL CALL 134

UMQUENAWIS THE MIGHTY 151

AT THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET 175

GLOSSARY OF INDIAN NAMES 187

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

"THERE AT A TURN IN THE PATH, NOT TEN YARDS AHEAD,
STOOD A HUGE BEAR" _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE
"THE WHITE FLAG SHOWING LIKE A BEACON LIGHT AS SHE
JUMPED AWAY" 9

"HER EYES ALL ABLAZE WITH THE WONDER OF THE LIGHT" 24

"PRESENTLY THEY BEGAN TO SWOOP FIERCELY AT SOME ANIMAL" 43

"GRIPPING HIS FISH AND _pip-pipping_ HIS EXULTATION" 53

"A DOZEN TIMES THE FISHER JUMPED, FILLING THE AIR WITH
FEATHERS"