An outdoor book which makes wildlife unusually fascinating through tales from personal observation and knowledge and the findings of others. A variety of four-footed creatures, including the raccoon, a gray squirrel, a red fox, a mink, a muskrat, a skunk -- on to the bobcat, the black bear, the white tailed deer, the woodchuck, the cottontail, the snowshow hare, the weasel, the porcupine, the otter. Besides natural history information, the dramas and comedies of their lives, their debits and assets to human beings, their characteristics and personalities, there is hunting by gun and camera for an overall picture of popular appeal.