The Face of the Fields
By Dallas Lore Sharp

By Dallas Lore Sharp

THE FACE OF THE FIELDS, 12mo, $1.25,net. Postage extra.
THE LAY OF THE LAND, 12mo, $1.25, net.Postage, 15 cents.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Boston and New York

THE FACE OF THE FIELDS

THE FACE OF THE FIELDS

BY DALLAS LORE SHARP
AUTHOR OF “WILD LIFE NEAR HOME,”
“ROOF ANDMEADOW,”
AND
“THE LAY OF THE LAND”

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1911

TO MY GOOD FRIEND
HINCKLEY GILBERT MITCHELL
HONEST SCHOLAR

I.	THE FACE OF THE FIELDS	1
II.	TURTLE EGGS FOR AGASSIZ	27
III.	THE EDGE OF NIGHT	57
IV.	THE SCARCITY OF SKUNKS	81
V.	THE NATURE-WRITER	111
VI.	JOHN BURROUGHS	141
VII.	HUNTING THE SNOW	177
VIII.	THE CLAM FARM	193
IX.	THE COMMUTER’S THANKSGIVING	217

All but two of these papers made their first appearance in TheAtlantic Monthly. “The Nature-Writer” was first printed in TheOutlook and “Hunting the Snow” in The Youth’s Companion.

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THE FACE OF THE FIELDS

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