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INTRODUCTORY 



THESE papers make no pretence to scientific status ; 

 at most they claim the merit of work capable of 

 exciting an interest and of ministering in some 

 small measure to the love of nature so general 

 among people of all classes to-day. Dealing as 

 they do with the class of subject, the study of 

 which forms the writer's recreation, it is hoped 

 that the reader will find in them too some breath 

 of the garden, the river-side, the hills, and the 

 woodland. 



Thanks are due to the proprietors of the Dundee 

 Advertiser for their ready assent to the appearance 

 of the papers in this form. 



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