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Title: My Studio Neighbors

Author: William Hamilton Gibson

Release Date: July 28, 2007 [EBook #22165]

Language: English

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[Illustration (signed) W Hamilton Gibson]

MY STUDIO NEIGHBORS

BY

WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON

ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR

[Illustration]

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1898

Copyright, 1897, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

_All rights reserved._

[Illustration: CONTENTS]

Page

_A Familiar Guest_ 3

_The Cuckoos and the Outwitted Cow-bird_ 23

_Door-step Neighbors_ 57

_A Queer Little Family on the Bittersweet_ 87

_The Welcomes of the Flowers_ 105

_A Honey-dew Picnic_ 151

_A Few Native Orchids and Their Insect Sponsors_ 171

_The Milkweed_ 227

_Index_ 239

[Illustration: LIST OF DESIGNS]

Page

_William Hamilton Gibson_ _Frontispiece_

_Initial. The Studio Door_ 3

_The Rose-bush Episode_ 9

_A Corner of My Table_ 12

_An Animated Brush_ 14

_A Specimen in Three Stages_ 16

_The Studio Table_ 18

_Initial_ 23

_The European Cuckoo_