Hedgerow Life 
keep you busy and interested at every 
season of the year for a very long 
time; and then if you added to that 
list other kinds of plants in different 
parts of the country—when at school, 
for instance, or on a visit, or at the 
seaside—and then took notice of all 
the many living creatures which live 
and find shelter and food in our hedges, 
you would find that after all there is 
plenty to see in the hedges of the 
most ordinary part of the country, even 
close to London and other large towns. 
To show you that you need not feel 
hopeless of seeing anything near London, 
I may tell you that during the last few 
years I have myself seen one hundred 
different sorts of birds in the suburban 
parish where | live. And a large pro- 
portion of these birds live chiefly in the 
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