CONTENTS 



Sea Thoughts page 107 



The Downs so Free 108 



A Woodlander 109 



The Passing of Summer 109 



SEPTEMBER 



Thoughts on Hunting 115 



Harvest-Home 1 1 8 



September's Birds 119 



September's Flowers 122 



Fly- by-Nights 124 



Doomsday 125 



The Keeper's Cares 126 



OCTOBER 



Artful Dodgers 129 



Songs and Revels 130 



Sporting Ways and Days 133 



Owls and Others 135 



Autumn Tones 137 



Birds of Passage 140 



The Fall 141 



NO VEMB ER 



Songs of Cheer 145 



The Year's Sunset 148 



Woodland Folk 148 



Winter Guests 149 



Shore Birds 153 



The Hibernators 155 



A Privateer 156 



A Farmer's Friends and Foes 157 



