My Studio Neighbors

MY STUDIO NEIGHBORS BY WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1898 Copyright, 1897, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All rights reserved. Page A Familiar Guest 3 The Cuckoos and the Outwitted Cow-bird 23 Door-step Neighbors 57 A Queer Little Family on the Bittersweet 87 The Welcomes of the Flowers 105 A Honey-dew Picnic 151 A Few Native Orchids and Their Insect Sponsors 171 The Milkweed 227 Index 239 Page William Hamilton Gibson Frontispiece Initial. The Studio Door 3 The Rose-bush Episode 9 A Corner of My Table 12 An Animated Brush 14 A Specimen in Three Stages 16 The Studio Table 18 Initial 23 The European Cuckoo 24 The Yellow-billed Cuckoo 26 Browsing Kine 29 A Greedy Foster-child 34 The Yellow Warbler 44 A Blighted Home 46 The Normal Nest of the Yellow Warbler 47 The Yellow Warbler at Home 49 A Suspicious Nest of the Yellow Warbler 50 The Nest Separated 52 Initial 57 The Door-step Arena, with its Pitfalls 60 Fishing for Tigers 65 Tiger-beetle 68 The Spider Victim 70 Filling the Spider's Grave 71 Black Digger-wasp 73 Black Digger-wasp and His Victim, Showing the Egg of the Wasp Attached 75 Protecting the Burrow while Searching for Prey 79 The "Cow-spit" Mystery Disclosed 81 The Tiger's Head, from the Victim's Stand-point 84 Initial. Branch of the Bittersweet 87 A Bittersweet Covey 90 Flushing the Game 92 Specimen Twig 94 Building Froth-tent 100 Butterflies and Flowers 105 A Row of Stamens 106