Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: mb (Birfe 3N this book are stories about bears, horses, a pine that lived a thousand years, Dr. Woodpecker, my dog
Scotch, snow-shoeing through the mountains, some coyotes, and the beaver. The bear story was told to me; but I was a part of the others. I wonder if you will sometime write a story of your experiences in the mountains. Out with Nature, the bears, birds, flowers, and the trees have many secrets that no one knows. Would you like to help discover these secrets ? No one has ever found where the chimney swift spends its winter. Each autumn, flocks of these birds travel slowly down the Atlantic coast to the Gulf of Mexico where they are seen by thousands. Suddenly they disappear. Five months later they reappear at the place where last seen and start northward for their summer home. There used to be a story that these birds dived down into the mud and there hibernated for thewinter. Of course they do not do this. But where do they go ? This is one of the thousands of interesting things not now known but which you may help to discover. In a beaver colony houses are built, dams made, ditches dug, and trees cut down. The work is done so quietly and systematically that it would seem as if one beaver in each colony plans and superintends the work. I think there is such a leader. Although for years I have had great fun watching, I have never seen him ? it may be her?giving orders. It may be that you will see this leader before I do. It is perfectly safe for you to explore the outdoors where the wild animals live. Bears, lions, and wolves will not attack you. All alone I have rambled through and camped in the wild places in every state in the Union. I did not carry a gun and none of the wild game ever bothered me. There are fourteen national parks. Here people are n…