The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers

Project Gutenberg's The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers, by John Burroughs This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers Author: John Burroughs Release Date: January 25, 2007 [EBook #20448] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WIT OF A DUCK AND OTHER PAPERS *** Produced by Joseph R. Hauser, Suzan Flanagan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Pg 1]The Riverside Literature Series THE WIT OF A DUCK AND OTHER PAPERS BY JOHN BURROUGHS The Riverside Press Cambridge HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO [Pg 2] CONTENTS I. The Wit of a Duck 5 II. An Astonished Porcupine 10 III. Human Traits in the Animals 14 IV. The Downy Woodpecker 22 V. A Barn-Door Outlook 27 VI. Wild Life in Winter 47 VII. Bird Life in Winter 54 VIII. A Birds' Free Lunch 63 IX. Bird-Nesting Time 70 X. A Breath of April 77 XI. The Woodcock's Evening Hymn 83 XII. The Coming of Summer 89 COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY E. H. HARRIMAN COPYRIGHT, 1904, 1905, 1908, AND 1913 BY JOHN BURROUGHS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS U . S . A [Pg 3] JOHN BURROUGHS John Burroughs was born April 3, 1837, in a little farmhouse among the Catskill Mountains.