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Title: In the Catskills

Author: John Burroughs

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IN THE CATSKILLS

Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs

With Illustrations from Photographs by Clifton Johnson

Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge

1910

[Illustration: A DISTANT VIEW OF SLIDE MOUNTAIN
The highest of the Catskills (Chapter VI)]

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

I. THE SNOW-WALKERS

II. A WHITE DAY AND A RED FOX

III. PHASES OF FARM LIFE

IV. IN THE HEMLOCKS

V. BIRDS'-NESTS

VI. THE HEART OF THE SOUTHERN CATSKILLS

VII. SPECKLED TROUT

VIII. A BED OF BOUGHS

ILLUSTRATIONS

A DISTANT VIEW OF SLIDE MOUNTAIN (Frontispiece)

THE FOX-HUNTER AND HIS HOUND

AT THE HEADWATERS OF THE DELAWARE
Overlooking Mr. Burroughs's boyhood home

FINDING A BIRD'S-NEST

THE WITTENBERG FROM WOODLAND VALLEY

A TROUT STREAM

THE BEAVERKILL

SOME PEOPLE OF THE CATSKILLS

INTRODUCTION

The eight essays in this volume all deal with the home region of
their author; for not only did Mr. Burroughs begin life in the
Catskills, and dwell among them until early manhood, but, as he
himself declares, he has never taken root anywhere else. Their
delectable heights and valleys have engaged his deepest affections
as far as locality is concerned, and however widely he journeys and
whatever charms he discovers in nature elsewhere, still the
loveliness of those pastoral boyhood up