Stories From Under The Sky

Acknowledgment

acknowledgment The author wishes to acknowledge several sources from which many of these stories were drawn. Although a number of the articles in this volume have been altered and rewritten , they exist essentially as they originally appeared in the following publications: True Magazine: "Half-Ounce Heller." The Iowa Conservationist : "The Locks of Medusa," "Outlaw Of The Dark Sloughs," "The Thimble Mill Fox," "Little Brother To The Bear," "The Fighting Doormat," "Geomys," "The Gloomiest Bird," "The Grand Passage," "The Bird Machine," "Child Of Adversity," "Br'er Toad's Secret Weapon," "Waterbugs," "Beware The Paper Cities," "The Unforgettable Feists," and "Sleepers And Snoozers." The Des Moines Register: "The World Of Charley Gibbs," "Than A Barrel Of Monkeys," "A Wilderness Of Light," and "Rivers." From The Mallard, copyrighted by the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation: "Man And The Mallard." The Drumming Log, released nationally by the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation: "Snake Liars," "The Little Sports," "Knife Talk," "The Small Brown Bird," "Outdoor Wishbooks," "On Crows," and "A Place To Loaf." PICTURE CREDITS JACK BRINTON: Des Moines Register: pages 148-49 JOHN H. GERARD: page 85 ARNOLD GORE: Des Moines Register: page 174 FRANK HEIDELBAUER: page 106 IOWA CONSERVATION COMMISSION: page 23 FRED KENT: pages II6, 1I7, 1I8, 121 BOB LONG: Des Moines Register: pages 89, 92 LEONARD LEE RUE III: pages 26, 32 C. W. SCHWARTZ: pages 19, 24, 25, 36, 39,42, 52, 54, 57, 59, 63, 134, 138, 153, 160, 191 J1M SHERMAN: page 51 The drawings which appear throughout the book and on the jacket were all prepared by DYCIE MADSON. ...