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The Spring of the Year

Dallas Lore Sharp

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .I should have to trim it, and scrape it, and plaster[Pg 14] up its holes, and put a burlap petticoat on it, all because of the gruesome gypsy moths that infest my trees. Oh, yes, that would make it bear better apples, but what then would become of its birds and beasts? Everybody ought to have one apple tree that bears birds and beasts—and Baldwin apples, too, of course, if the three sorts of fruit can be made to grow on the same tree. But only the birds and beasts grow well on the untrimmed, unscraped, unplastered, unpetticoated old tree yonder between the pastures. His heart is wide open to every small traveler passing by.

Whenever I look over toward the old tree, I think of the old vine-covered, weather-beaten house in which my grandfather lived, where many a traveler put up over night—to get a plate of grandmother’s buckwheat cakes, I think, and a taste of her keen wit. The old house sat in under a grove of pin oak and pine,—“Unde. . . Read More

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4.00
- Kaycee - Jun 23, 2022

Sweet little stories from a very imaginative and experienced naturalist. It hasn’t been my favorite of our Nature Lore (they were also a little long sometimes), but still very enjoyable. I especially appreciated his defense of the common chipmunk as a beneficial citizen to a homestead

4.00
- Peggy - Oct 09, 2015

I love books about nature. And I love old fashion books. So this book was a hit. It planted in me that desire to go and sit and wait in nature itself to catch a glimpse of what I can't see in my hurried life of every day living.
My favorite chapter was the chapter describing the antics of the chipmun

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