The second part of this work opens with a description of the "wood choppers
The second part of this work opens with a description of the "wood choppers" who had made a clearing where, now, only an old pine stands.  Earlier in the work a house guest noted that he was willing to give ten dollars in return for a favor, while another character reminisced about her son Dan, a great wanderer who left the North East for California.  Published in a namesake collection, some two years before its author's novel on a similar theme, A Country Doctor, it opens as the protagonist is attempting to use a twig of birch leaves to guide home a cow named Mistress Mooly.  Ultimately, Mrs. Tilley's granddaughter decides not to tell the young man with the gun where a particular creature can be found.  For 10 points, identify this work about Sylvia's decision to save the title bird, a short story by Sarah Orne Jewett.
The second part of this work opens with a description of the "wood choppers" who had made a clearing where, now, only an old pine stands.  
"A White Heron"