PREFACE. 



THE following chapters are reprinted verbatim f^n a Magazine which 

 has for its chief aim the diffusion of moral and sacred truth, and is 

 always glad to have this done through the medium, of illustrations 

 drawn from NATUEE, that second Book of God, which is everywhere 

 a commentary upon the first and greatest. They make not the 

 slightest pretension to a scientific character, seeking, like their fore- 

 runner on the "Little Things of Nature," simply to set forth, in a 

 plain and easy manner, some few of the beautiful and refreshing 

 truths connected with the foresters of Old England. If received in 

 the kindly spirit which it is hoped they may aid in diffusing and 

 encouraging, they may probably be followed by a second series. 



Bumford- street, Manchester, 



January, 1868. 



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