The art of seeing things -- Sharp eyes -- Bird-songs -- The exhilarations of the road -- The bluebird -- Speckled trout -- The crow -- Phases of farm life -- A walk in the fields -- A cow in the capital -- From "In green Alaska" -- A hunt for the nightingale -- The grist of the gods -- From "The animal and the puzzle-box" -- From Under the apple trees -- Reading the book of nature -- The spring bird procession -- The ways of sportsmen -- Keeping the iron from our souls -- Emerson and the pine tree -- Thoreau's wildness -- From Whitman: a study -- An egotistical chapter -- The faith of a naturalist -- An outlook upon life -- Wild life about my cabin -- From My boyhood -- Waiting -- A John Burroughs bibliography.