It
affected me - Feeling with regard to flowers - A flower and my mother
- History of a flower - Animism with regard to trees - Locust trees by
moonlight - Animism and nature-worship - Animistic emotion not uncommon
- Cowper and the Yardley oak - The religionist's fear of nature -
Pantheistic Christianity - Survival of nature-worship in England -
The feeling for nature - Wordsworth's pantheism and animistic emotion
in poetry
CHAPTER XVIII
THE NEW SCHOOLMASTER
Mr. Trigg recalled - His successor - Father O'Keefe - His mild rule and
love of angling - My brother is assisted in his studies by the priest -
Happy fishing afternoons - The priest leaves us - How he had been
working out his own salvation - We run wild once more - My brother's
plan for a journal to be called _The Tin Box_ - Our imperious editor's
exactions - My little brother revolts - _The Tin Box_ smashed up - The
loss it was to me
CHAPTER XIX
BROTHERS
Our third and last schoolmaster - His many accomplishments - His
weakness and final breakdown - My important brother - Four brothers,
unlike in everything except the voice - A strange meeting - Jack the
Killer, his life and character - A terrible fight - My brother seeks
instructions from Jack - The gaucho's way of fighting and Jack's
contrasted - Our sham fight with knives - A wound and the result - My
feeling about Jack and his eyes - Bird-lore - My two elder brothers'
practical joke
CHAPTER XX
BIRDING IN THE MARSHES
Visiting the marshes - Pajonales and juncales - Abundant bird life - A
coots' metropolis - Frightening the coots - Grebe and painted snipe
colonies - The haunt of the social marsh hawk - The beautiful jacana and
its eggs - The colony of marsh trupials - The bird's music - The aquatic
plant durasmillo - The trupial's nest and eggs - Recalling a beauty
that has vanished - Our games with gaucho boys - I am injured by a bad
boy - The shepherd's advice - Getting my revenge in a treacherous
manner - Was it right or wrong?
