CONTENTS

Preface....

Introduction..

CHAPTER

I. "Who is Jack Miner?"

II. My First Pets.

III. Market Hunting...

IV. Our Faithful Dogs...

V. Bob White Quail.

VI. Raising English or Ring-necked Pheasants in

Canada....

VII. The Natural Enemies of our Birds..

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VIII. Some Things I have Known Cannibal Birds to Do 25

XV. Knowledge and Ways of the Wild Duck.

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XVI. Do Birds Return to Their Same Homes?........

63

XVII. Birds as Missionary Messengers..

68

XVIII. How Wild Ducks Conceal Their Nests..

72

XIX. My Last Distinguished Family of Pet Ducks....

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Jack Miner Himself. .

Looking Over Esau's Line Fence at the Writer.

Quail Self-serving Feed-rack.

.Frontispiece

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12

Hawk and Owl Trap......

Shelter and Feeding-place for Quail.

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Quail Egg-shells, After Hatching.

I Love the Birds, and They Have Come to Me..
Young Quail, Just Four Weeks Old...

Eating from the Hand that once Held the Gun..

Under Side of Weasel Trap and Harbor..

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"Why Didn't You Knock Before You Opened the Door?".

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