Index Index America, early interest in, 51-53 ; emigration to, 53-59 . Anderson, Mr., 216 , 217 . Anemone patens var. Nuttalliana , 119-121 . Animals, man’s tyranny over, 83 , 84 , 109 , 110 , 181 ; accidents to, 133-136 ; the taming of, 185 , 186 ; cleanliness, 187 , 188 ; endurance of cold, 189 , 190 . Apples, wild, 124 . Audubon, John James, on the passenger pigeon, 52 , 53 , 162-166 . Aurora borealis, 205 , 206 . Badgers, 183 . Bathing, 16 , 17 ; of animals, 187 , 188 ; of man, 188 , 189 . See also Swimming. Bear, black, 171 , 183 , 184 . Bees, 234-239 . Beetle, whirligig, 114 . Berries, 122 , 123 . Bible, the, 242-244 . Birds, removing their eggs, 64 , 65 ; met with in Wisconsin, 64-75 , 137-167 ; accidents to, 131-135 ; bathing, 187 , 188 . Birds’-nesting, 27 , 28 , 44-48 . Blackbird, red-winged, 142 , 143 ; hunting, 175 . Blacksmith, the minister, 108 ; his cruelty to his brother, 214-217 . Bluebird, nest, 62 , 139 ; a favorite, 138 , 139 . Boat, 115 . Boatmen (insects), 115 . Bobolink, 140 , 141 . Bob-white, or quail, accidents to, 133-135 ; habits, 151 , 152 . Books, 241-245 . Botany, first lessons in, 280-283 . Boys, savagery of, 23-26 . Brush fires, 76 , 77 . Bull-bat, or nighthawk, 69-71 . Bullfrogs, 74 . Butterfly-weed, 122 . Cats, a boy’s cruel prank, 23-26 ; a cat with kittens, 77 , 78 ; old Tom and the loon, 155-158 . Charlie, the feeble-minded man, 214-217 . Chickadee, 143 , 144 . Chickens, prairie, 145 , 146 . Chipmunk, 193 , 194 . Choke-damp, 232 , 233 . Chores, 202-204 . Christian Philosopher , The , by Thomas Dick, 242 . Clocks, 252-258 . Clover, 199 , 200 . Combe’s Physiology, 188 . Consumption, 212 , 213 . Coons, 170 , 184 , 185 . Copperhead, 110 , 111 . Corn, husking, 105 , 106 . Cows, sympathy with, 94 . Crane, sandhill, 68 , 97 . Crops, Wisconsin, 199 , 200 . Cypripedium, 121 , 122 . Dandy Doctor terror, the, 6-9 . Davel Brae, 28-30 . Deer, 169-174 . Desk, a student’s, 283 , 284 . Dick, Thomas, his Christian Philosopher , 242 . Dog, Watch, the mongrel, 77-83 . Duck, wood, 147 , 148 . Ducks, wild, 147 , 148 . Dunbar, Scotland, a boyhood in, 1-55 ; later visit to, 37 , 38 . Dunbar Castle, 17 . Duncan, William, 233 . Eagle, bald, and fish hawk, 51 , 52 . Early-rising machine, 252-256 , 284 . Ferns, 122 . Fiddler, story of a Scotch, 130 , 131 . Fighting, boys’, 28-30 , 33-37 . Fireflies, 71 , 72 . Fires, brush, 76 , 77 ; household, 204 ; grass, 230 ; lighting the schoolhouse fire, 277-279 . Fishes, 115-117 . Fishing, 116 , 117 . Flicker, 66 . Flowers, at Dunbar, 12-14 ; wild, in Wisconsin, 118-122 . Food question, the, 241-244 . Fountain Lake, 62 , 115-118 , 124-129 . Fountain Lake Meadow, 62 , 71 . Fox River, 123 , 141 , 147 . Foxes, 182 , 183 . Frogs, love-songs of, 74 . Fuller, 129 . Ghosts, 18 , 19 . Gilrye, Grandfather, 2-4 , 43 , 54 , 55 . Glow-worms, 72 . Goose, Canada, 149-151 . Gophers, 194-198 . Grandfather. See Gilrye, Grandfather. Gray, Alexander, 60 , 61 . Green Lake, 103 , 104 . Griswold, Judge, 280-282 . Grouse, ruffed, or partridge, drumming, 72 . Grubs, 229 . Half-witted man, 214-217 . Hare, Dr., 7 . Hares, 181 , 182 . Hawk, fish, and bald eagle, 51 , 52 . Hawks, 66 , 177 . Hell, warnings as to, 76 , 77 . Hen-hawk, 66 . Hickory, 123 . Hickory Hill, purchase and development of the farm, 226-234 ; life at, 234-263 ; vacation work at, 279 . Holabird, Mr., 148 . Holidays, 174 . Honey-bees, 234-239 . Horses, the pony Jack, 95-102 ; Nob and Nell, 103-105 , 107-109 . Hunt, the side, 168 , 169 . Hunting expeditions, 171 . Hyla, 75 . Ice, whooping of, 207 , 208 . Ice-storm, 206 , 207 . “Inchcape Bell, The,” 5 , 6 . Indian moccasins (flowers), 121 , 122 . Indians, hunting muskrats, 81 , 82 ; killing pigs, 88 , 89 ; stealing a horse, 103-105 ; getting ducks and wild rice, 147 ; hunting coons and deer, 170 ; fond of muskrat flesh, 180 ; rights of, 218-220 . Industry, excessive, 222-226 . Insects, 113-115 . Inventions, on the farm, 248-261 ; introduced to the world, 260-272 ; the clock fire, 277-279 ; at the University, 283-286 . Jack, the pony, 95-102 . Jay, blue, nest, 62-65 . Kettle-holes, 98 . Kingbird, 66 , 67 . Kingston, Wis., 59-61 . Lady’s-slippers, 121 , 122 . Lake Mendota, 129 . Landlord, a friendly, 264 , 265 . Lark. See Skylark. Lauderdale, Lord, his gardens, 2 . Lawson, Peter, 13 , 14 . Lawson boys, 126 , 127 , 175 . Lightning-bugs, 71 , 72 . Lilium superbum , 122 . Linnet, red-headed, 187 , 188 . “Llewellyn’s Dog,” 4 , 5 . Locomotive, riding on a, 267-269 . Loon, 153-158 . Lyon, Mr., teacher, 30 , 37 . Maccoulough’s Course of Reading , 51 . McRath, Mr., 184 , 185 . Madison, Wis., State Fair at, 260 , 261 , 269-272 ; life in, 273-287 . Mair, George, 218 , 219 . Mallard, 147 . Marmot, mountain, 186 . Meadowlark, 143 . Meals, 42 , 43 ; the Scotch religious view of, 249 , 250 . Melons, 200 . Minister, the blacksmith, 108 ; his cruelty to his brother, 214-217 . Moccasins, Indian, 121 , 122 . Mosquitoes, 113 , 114 . Mouse, European field, with young, 3 . Mouse, meadow, or field, 106 , 107 ; eaten by a horse, 107 . Muir, Anna, 56 . Muir, Anne (Gilrye) (mother), 11 , 15 , 16 , 20 , 22 , 23 , 28 , 49 , 256 , 259 , 260 , 263 . Muir, Daniel (brother), 56 , 115 , 146 , 223 . Muir, Daniel (father), 10 , 11 , 24 , 31 , 43 , 44 , 49 , 53-56 , 58-61 , 83 , 90 , 94-96 , 100-102 , 115 , 148 , 191 , 195 , 203 , 205 , 218 , 222 , 224 , 226 , 231-234 ; admonitions, 76 , 77 ; Scotch correction, 84-87 ; as a church-goer, 107 , 108 ; his advice as to swimming, 124 ; his ideas about books and the Bible, 241-244 ; rules as to going to bed and getting up, 245-251 ; his religious view of meals, 249 , 250 ; and his son’s inventions, 253-258 ; his parting advice to his son, 262 ; theories on bringing up children, 263 . Muir, David, 11 , 20-22 , 43 , 53 , 54 , 56 , 62 , 78 , 85-87 , 97 , 110 , 115 , 125 , 126 , 223 , 231 , 263 , 264 ; kills a deer, 172-174 . Muir, John, fondness for the wild, 1 , 49 , 50 ; earliest recollections, 1-3 ; first school, 3-10 , 28-30 ; favorite stories in reading-book, 4-6 ; favorite hymns and songs, 9 , 10 ; early fondness for flowers, 12-14 ; an early accident, 15 , 16 ; bathing, 16 , 17 ; boyish sports, 17-26 , 40 , 41 ; grammar school, 30-39 ; birds’-nesting, 44-48 ; early interest in America, 51-53 ; emigration to America, 53-59 ; settling in Wisconsin, 58-62 ; life on the Fountain Lake farm, 62-226 ; escaping a whipping, 84-87 ; learning to ride, 95-100 ; learning to swim, 124-129 ; ambition in mowing and cradling, 202 , 223 ; put to the plough, 220 , 221 ; hard work, 221-224 ; running the breaking plough, 227-229 ; life at Hickory Hill, 230-263 ; adventure in digging a well, 231-234 ; educating himself, 240-247 ; early rising proves a way out of difficulties, 245-251 ; inventions, 248-261 ; deciding on an occupation, 259-261 ; determines to take his inventions to the State Fair, 260-262 ; starting out into the world, 262-269 ; at the State Fair, 269-272 ; enters a machine-shop at Prairie du Chien, 272 , 273 ; odd jobs at Madison, 273 , 274 ; enters the University, 274-276 ; life at the University, 276-287 ; teaching school, 277-279 ; vacation work at Hickory Hill, 279 ; first lessons in botany, 280-283 ; more inventions, 283-286 ; enters the University of the Wilderness, 286 , 287 . Muir, Margaret, 56 , 253 . Muir, Mary, 56 . Muir, Sarah, 15 , 56 , 127 . Muir’s Lake. See Fountain Lake. Muskrats, an Indian hunting, 81 , 82 ; habits, 177-181 . Nighthawk, 69-71 . Nob and Nell, the horses, 103-105 , 107-109 . Nuthatches, 144 , 145 . Nuts, 123 , 124 . Oriole, Baltimore, 143 . Owls, 145 . Oxen, humanity in, 90-94 . Pardeeville, Wis., 263-266 . Partridge, or ruffed grouse, drumming, 72 . Pasque-flower, 119-121 . Phrenology, 266 . Pickerel, 116 , 117 . Pigeon, passenger, Audubon’s account, 52 , 53 , 162-166 ; extermination, 83 ; in Wisconsin, 158-162 ; Pokagon’s account, 166 , 167 . Ploughing, 201 , 202 , 220 , 221 ; the breaking plough, 227-229 . Plutarch’s Lives, 241 , 242 . Pokagon, his account of the passenger pigeon, 166 , 167 . Portage, Wis., 93 , 94 , 108 . Prairie chickens, 145 , 146 . Prairie du Chien, 272 , 273 . Pucaway Lake, 147 . Quail. See Bob-white. Rabbits, 181 , 189 . Raccoon, 170 , 184 , 185 . Rails, splitting, 221 , 222 . Rattlesnakes, 110 . Reid, Mr., 213 , 214 . Ridgway, Robert, 64 . Road-making, 209 . Robin, American, 139 . Robin, European, 27 , 28 . Scootchers, 20-22 . Scotch, the, their ideas of self-punishment, 130 , 131 . Scotch, the language, 57 . Scottish Grays, 27 . Self-punishment, 130 , 131 . Settlers in Wisconsin, 211-220 , 222-226 . Shrike, a burglarious, 195-198 . Siddons, Mungo, 8 , 9 , 12 , 30 . Skaters (insects), 115 . Skylark, 46-48 . Snake, blow, 111 . Snakes, 110-112 . Snipe, a case of difficult parturition, 134 . Snipe, jack, 73 . Snowstorms, 206 . Southey, Robert, his “Inchcape Bell,” 5 , 6 . Sow, the old, 88 , 89 . Sparrow, song, 143 . Spermophile, or ground squirrel, a frozen, 135 , 136 . Spirit-rappings, 210 , 211 . Squirrel, flying, 192 . Squirrel, gray, 190-192 . Squirrel, ground. See Gophers and Spermophile. State Fair, 260 , 261 , 269-272 . Stirling, Professor, 275 , 276 . Strawberries, wild, 122 . Sunfish, 116 . Swamps, 208 , 209 . Swans, wild, 149 . Swimming, 124-129 . Tanager, scarlet, 143 . Thermometer, a large, 258 , 259 . Thrasher, brown, 139 , 140 . Thrush, brown. See Thrasher. Thunder-storms, 75 , 76 . Trap, the steel, 180 . Tuberculosis, 212 , 213 . Turk’s-turban, 122 . Turtle, snapping, 80 . Vaccination, 11 . Water-boatmen, 115 . Water-bugs, 114 . Water-lily, 118 , 119 . Well, digging a, 231-234 . Whippings, 84-87 . Whip-poor-will, 68 , 69 . Wiard, an inventor, 272 , 273 . Wilson, Alexander, account of fish hawk and bald eagle, 51 , 52 . Wind-flower, 119-121 . Wisconsin, settling in, 58-62 ; life in, 62-287 . Woodpecker, red-headed, 66 ; drowning, 131-133 ; shot and resurrected, 175 , 176 . Woodpeckers, nest-holes and young, 65 , 66 . Wrecks, 38 , 39 . 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