hard work, 221-224;
  running the breaking plough, 227-229;
  life at Hickory Hill, 230-263;
  adventure in digging a well, 231-234;
  educating himself, 240-247;
  early rising proves a way out of difficulties, 245-251;
  inventions, 248-261;
  deciding on an occupation, 259-261;
  determines to take his inventions to the State Fair, 260-262;
  starting out into the world, 262-269;
  at the State Fair, 269-272;
  enters a machine-shop at Prairie du Chien, 272, 273;
  odd jobs at Madison, 273, 274;
  enters the University, 274-276;
  life at the University, 276-287;
  teaching school, 277-279;
  vacation work at Hickory Hill, 279;
  first lessons in botany, 280-283;
  more inventions, 283-286;
  enters the University of the Wilderness, 286, 287.

Muir, Margaret, 56, 253.

Muir, Mary, 56.

Muir, Sarah, 15, 56, 127.

Muir’s Lake. See Fountain Lake.

Muskrats,
  an Indian hunting, 81, 82;
  habits, 177-181.

Nighthawk, 69-71.

Nob and Nell, the horses, 103-105, 107-109.

Nuthatches, 144, 145.

Nuts, 123, 124.

Oriole, Baltimore, 143.

Owls, 145.

Oxen, humanity in, 90-94.

Pardeeville, Wis., 263-266.

Partridge, or ruffed grouse, drumming, 72.

Pasque-flower, 119-121.

Phrenology, 266.

Pickerel, 116, 117.

Pigeon, passenger,
  Audubon’s account, 52, 53, 162-166;
  extermination, 83;
  in Wisconsin, 158-162;
  Pokagon’s account, 166, 167.

Ploughing, 201, 202, 220, 221;
  the breaking plough, 227-229.

Plutarch’s Lives, 241, 242.

Pokagon, his account of the passenger pigeon, 166, 167.

Portage, Wis., 93, 94, 108.

Prairie chickens, 145, 146.

Prairie du Chien, 272, 273.

Pucaway Lake, 147.

Quail. See Bob-white.

Rabbits, 181, 189.

Raccoon, 170, 184, 185.

Rails, splitting, 221, 222.

Rattlesnakes, 110.

Reid, Mr., 213, 214.

Ridgway, Robert, 64.

Road-making, 209.

Robin, American, 139.

Robin, European, 27, 28.

Scootchers, 20-22.

Scotch, the, their ideas of self-punishment, 130, 131.

Scotch, the language, 57.

Scottish Grays, 27.

Self-punishment, 130, 131.

Settlers in Wisconsin, 211-220, 222-226.

Shrike, a burglarious, 195-198.

Siddons, Mungo, 8, 9, 12, 30.

Skaters (insects), 115.

Skylark, 46-48.

Snake, blow, 111.

Snakes, 110-112.

Snipe, a case of difficult parturition, 134.

Snipe, jack, 73.

Snowstorms, 206.

Southey, Robert, his “Inchcape Bell,” 5, 6.