m, 124-129;
ambition in mowing and cradling, 202, 223;
put to the plough, 220, 221;
hard work, 221-224;
running the breaking plough, 227-229;
life at Hickory Hill, 230-263;
adventure in digging a well, 231-234;
educating himself, 240-247;
early rising proves a way out of difficulties, 245-251;
inventions, 248-261;
deciding on an occupation, 259-261;
determines to take his inventions to the State Fair, 260-262;
starting out into the world, 262-269;
at the State Fair, 269-272;
enters a machine-shop at Prairie du Chien, 272, 273;
odd jobs at Madison, 273, 274;
enters the University, 274-276;
life at the University, 276-287;
teaching school, 277-279;
vacation work at Hickory Hill, 279;
first lessons in botany, 280-283;
more inventions, 283-286;
enters the University of the Wilderness, 286, 287.

Muir, Margaret, 56, 253.

Muir, Mary, 56.

Muir, Sarah, 15, 56, 127.

Muir's Lake. _See_ Fountain Lake.

Muskrats,
an Indian hunting, 81, 82;
habits, 177-181.

Nighthawk, 69-71.

Nob and Nell, the horses, 103-105, 107-109.

Nuthatches, 144, 145.

Nuts, 123, 124.

Oriole, Baltimore, 143.

Owls, 145.

Oxen, humanity in, 90-94.

Pardeeville, Wis., 263-266.

Partridge, _or_ ruffed grouse, drumming, 72.

Pasque-flower, 119-121.

Phrenology, 266.

Pickerel, 116, 117.

Pigeon, passenger,
Audubon's account, 52, 53, 162-166;
extermination, 83;
in Wisconsin, 158-162;
Pokagon's account, 166, 167.

Ploughing, 201, 202, 220, 221;
the breaking plough, 227-229.

Plutarch's Lives, 241, 242.

Pokagon, his account of the passenger pigeon, 166, 167.

Portage, Wis., 93, 94, 108.

Prairie chickens, 145, 146.

Prairie du Chien, 272, 273.

Pucaway Lake, 147.

Quail. _See_ Bob-white.

Rabbits, 181, 189.

Raccoon, 170, 184, 185.

Rails, splitting, 221, 222.

Rattlesnakes, 110.

Reid, Mr., 213, 214.

Ridgway, Robert, 64.

Road-making, 209.

Robin, American, 139.

Robin, European, 27, 28.

Scootchers, 20-22.

Scotch, the, their ideas of self-punishment, 130, 131.

Scotch, the language, 57.

Scottish Grays, 27.

Self-punishment, 130, 131.

Settlers in Wisconsin, 211-220, 222-226.

Shrike, a burglarious, 195-198.

Siddons, Mungo, 8, 9, 12, 30.

Skaters (insects), 115.

Skylark, 46-48.

Snake, blow, 111.

Snakes, 110-112.

Snipe, a case of difficult parturition, 134.

Snipe, jack, 73.

Snowstorms, 206.