Some Summer Days in Iowa
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- Some Summer Days in Iowa
- Frederick John Lazell
- "HAS CUT ITS WAY STRAIGHT DOWN THE FACE OF A CLIFF" (p. 111)
- PREFACE
- VII.—AN OLD ROAD IN JULY
- "EVERY TREE IS A PICTURE" (p. 22)
- "CURVES WHICH ADD MUCH TO ITS WILD BEAUTY" (p. 23)
- "THE SUMAC'S TORCHES LIGHT UP THE OLD ROAD" (p. 35)
- YOUNG BLUE-JAY TRYING TO CLIMB BACK TO ITS NEST "THE WOOD THRUSH HAS A LATE NEST IN A YOUNG ELM" (p. 41) "THE CHIPMUNK HOLDS IN HIS PAWS A BIT OF BREAD" (p. 20)
- "THE FRAGRANCE OF THE MILKWEED AT EVENING" (p. 54)
- VIII.—BY THE RIVERSIDE IN AUGUST
- "GRATEFUL SHADE OF SOME FRIENDLY OLD OAK" (p. 63)
- "FAT FROM A SUMMER'S FEEDING" (p. 63)
- "HE TURNS THAT SOLEMN FACE" (p. 71)
- "IN PLACID PONDS" (p. 92)
- "STILL THE RIVER BECKONS ONWARD" (p. 93)
- IX.—THE PASSING OF SUMMER
- "PAUSING IN EACH DEEP POOL TO COOL AND REFRESH ITSELF" (p. 109)
- "LIES ASLEEP IN A DREAM OF SUNSHINE" (p. 111)
- "CATTLE BENEATH THE TREES WOULD MAKE THE SAME PICTURE" (p. 116)
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