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    [Illustration: A SUMMER EVENING--NIGHT HERONS (page 54)]


    The Dallas Lore Sharp Nature Series




    SUMMER

    by

    DALLAS LORE SHARP


    AUTHOR OF "THE LAY OF THE LAND," "THE FACE OF THE FIELDS,"
    "WHERE ROLLS THE OREGON," "THE FALL OF THE YEAR,"
    "WINTER," "THE SPRING OF THE YEAR," ETC.


    ILLUSTRATED BY
    ROBERT BRUCE HORSFALL


    BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
    HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
    The Riverside Press Cambridge


    COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY PERRY MASON COMPANY
    COPYRIGHT, 1913 AND 1914, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY
    COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY THE CENTURY COMPANY
    COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.
    COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY DALLAS LORE SHARP

    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


    The Riverside Press
    CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS
    U. S. A


    TO

    ROBERT BRUCE HORSFALL
    THE FRIEND AND ARTIST
    OF THESE FOUR BOOKS




    CONTENTS


    INTRODUCTION                                      ix
       I. THE SUMMER AFIELD                            1
      II. THE WILD ANIMALS AT PLAY                     9
     III. A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO SEE THIS SUMMER      18
      IV. THE COYOTE OF PELICAN POINT                 27
       V. FROM T WHARF TO FRANKLIN FIELD              39
      VI. A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO HEAR THIS SUMMER     46
     VII. THE SEA-BIRDS' HOME                         57
    VIII. THE MOTHER MURRE                            65
      IX. MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS                     79
       X. RIDING THE RIM ROCK                         88
      XI. A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO DO THIS SUMMER      100
     XII. THE "CONY"                                 112
          NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS                      123



    ILLUSTRATIONS


    A SUMMER EVENING--BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERONS        _Frontispiece_
    RED CLOVER AND BUMBLEBEE                                         4
    RED SALAMANDER, OLD AND YOUNG                                    7
    NEWTS                                                            7
    HIPPOPOTAMUS--"IT WAS HIS GAME OF SOLITAIRE"                     9
    THE OTTER AND HIS SLIDE                                         12
    "FOLLOW MY LEADER"                                              14
    BUTTERFLIES AT PLAY--"WHIRLING OVER MT. HOOD'S POINTED PEAK"    16
    RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD AND NEST                              20
    ORCHIDS                                                         22
    YOUNG COWBIRD IN VIREO'S NEST                                   25
    COYOTE--"WHAT A SHOT!"                                          28
    ARGIOPE, THE MEADOW SPIDER                                      44
    CICADA--"DOG-DAYS-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z"                                48
    "THE BATS FLITTING AND WAVERING ABOUT"                          49
    RED-EYED VIREO--"DO YOU BELIEVE IT?"                            52
    TUFTED PUFFINS                                                  59
    BRANDT'S CORMORANT                                              63
    A MOTHER SPIDER WITH HER SACK OF EGGS                           67
    THE FATHER STICKLEBACK ON GUARD                                 68
    CALIFORNIA MURRE--"WITH THREATENING BEAK WATCHED THE TWO MEN
        COME ON"                                                    75
    PETRELS--"SKIMMING THE HEAVING SEA LIKE SWALLOWS"               80
    RIDING THE RIM ROCK--"NECK AND NECK WITH A BIG WHITE STEER"     97
    SASSAFRAS                                                      105
    DEADLY NIGHTSHADE                                              106
    POISON SUMACH                                                  107
    POISON IVY                                                     108
    VIRGINIA CREEPER                                               109
    THE DEADLY MUSHROOMS                                           110
    POKE BERRIES                                                   111
    THE CONY, OR PIKA                                              116




INTRODUCTION


In this fourth and last volume of these outdoor books I have taken you
into the summer fields and, shall I hope? left you there. After all,
what better thing could I do? And as I leave you there, let me say one
last serious word concerning the purpose of such books as these and
the large subject of nature-study