AN ARCADIAN CALENDAR 



pipe. Shakespeare referred to its pea-shooting uses: 

 " That's a perilous shot out of an elder gunne." 



IN a woodland glade that smells of Autumn, among 

 dying bracken and verdant moss, is a 

 Toadstool cluster of the most gorgeous of toadstools, 

 Lore the fly agaric, in vivid scarlet cap. Some 



say that the man who eats it will pass from 

 intoxication through delirium to death; others think 

 its reputation has suffered unjustly from its having 

 poisonous relatives, one of which is called the " des- 

 troying angel." Near the agaric grows a tall parasol 

 mushroom with a movable ring on its tall stalk; this 

 has a good repute, and the fungophagist argues that the 

 hollow left when the stem is pulled off was expressly 

 intended by Nature for the insertion of a butterpat 

 when the mushroom was a-frying. 



WHERE bands of titmice go a-roving through the 

 Autumn woods there is a chance of enjoy- 

 Sing ing the exceptional pleasure of identifying 



Willow, a new British bird in the person of the 

 Tit Willow willow-tit. Some good authorities are of 

 opinion that it is now becoming widely 

 distributed, though it is little known, has a history only 

 of some twenty-five years in this country, and is hardly 

 to be distinguished from the marsh-tit. It is known by 

 the dullness of its cap, the brownish hue of its flanks, 

 and the sign of a curiously rounded tail. Quiet in habit, 

 a study in greyish-brown (and quiet also in habits), it 

 is in harmony with the shady, marshy woods it specially 

 favours. 



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