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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Some Summer Days in Iowa
Frederick John Lazell
67 pages~1 hr 21 min read20 chapters$4.99
An old July road runs straight down a cliff face, and the sumac's torches light the way. Frederick Lazell follows an Iowa summer through wild curves of landscape and small roadside wonders. Every tree, he insists, is a picture. A warm, unhurried walk through the high season of the prairie country. Slow down and look.
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20 chapters
- 1Some Summer Days in Iowa
- 2Frederick John Lazell
- 3"HAS CUT ITS WAY STRAIGHT DOWN THE FACE OF A CLIFF" (p. 111)
- 4PREFACE
- 5VII.—AN OLD ROAD IN JULY
- 6"EVERY TREE IS A PICTURE" (p. 22)
- 7"CURVES WHICH ADD MUCH TO ITS WILD BEAUTY" (p. 23)
- 8"THE SUMAC'S TORCHES LIGHT UP THE OLD ROAD" (p. 35)
- 9YOUNG 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)
- 10"THE FRAGRANCE OF THE MILKWEED AT EVENING" (p. 54)
- 11VIII.—BY THE RIVERSIDE IN AUGUST
- 12"GRATEFUL SHADE OF SOME FRIENDLY OLD OAK" (p. 63)
- 13"FAT FROM A SUMMER'S FEEDING" (p. 63)
- 14"HE TURNS THAT SOLEMN FACE" (p. 71)
- 15"IN PLACID PONDS" (p. 92)
- 16"STILL THE RIVER BECKONS ONWARD" (p. 93)
- 17IX.—THE PASSING OF SUMMER
- 18"PAUSING IN EACH DEEP POOL TO COOL AND REFRESH ITSELF" (p. 109)
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