The Road Not Taken 131
Christmas Trees 132
An Old Man’s Winter Night 135
The Exposed Nest 136
A Patch of Old Snow 138
In the Home Stretch 139
The Telephone 147
Meeting and Passing 148
Hyla Brook 149
The Oven Bird 150
Bond and Free 151
Birches 152
Pea Brush 154
Putting in the Seed 155
A Time to Talk 156
The Cow in Apple Time 157
An Encounter 158
Range-Finding 159
The Hill Wife 160
The Bonfire 163
A Girl’s Garden 167
Locked Out 169
The Last Word of a Bluebird 170
‘Out, Out--’ 171
Brown’s Descent 173
The Gum-Gatherer 176
The Line-Gang 178
The Vanishing Red 179
Snow 180
The Sound of the Trees 195