PETWORTH RAVENS. 147 



LETTER XIV. 



" Fortunate senex, hie inter llumma nota, 

 Et fontes sacros, frigus captabis opacum." 



VIBGIL. 



Petworth Ravens Expulsion Gamekeeper's Strategy 

 Return Hollow Beech Trees Colony of Jackdaws 

 The Skirmish Mob Routed Unexpected Abdi 

 cation Stronghold Demolished Periodical Depar- 

 ture Early Lessons The Raven's Clump Retreat 

 Discovered Rape of the Squabs Disappearance of 

 the old Birds Plunderer Detected The Lost Heir 

 Restored Result. 



THERE are few circumstances which have 

 afforded me greater pleasure, or which, on re- 

 flection, I regard with more complacency and 

 satisfaction, than my success in advocating the 

 cause of the raven in this neighbourhood, and 

 even in converting those who were once his 

 enemies and persecutors into his friends and 

 admirers. 



For many years the raven had here been but 

 little known. This might in some measure have 



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