NATURE’S INVITATION

NOTES OF A BIRD-GAZER NORTH AND SOUTH

BY

BRADFORD TORREY

“On Nature’s invitation do I come.” — WORDSWORTH.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge
 

COPYRIGHT 1904 BY BRADFORD TORREY

Published October 1904

PREFATORY NOTE

OF the chapters here brought together the two longest, the first and the last, are reprinted from the “Atlantic Monthly.” The others were originally contributed, by way of weekly letters, to three newspapers, — the “Evening Transcript” of Boston, and the “Mail and Express” and the “Evening Post” of New York.

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