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NOVEMBER I 



A WALK ROUND THE ZOO 



The squirrel's suburb Tame little misers The tree 

 kangaroo Horns and temper The mesmerizing snake 

 The maggot lure Galloping wolves The lightning 

 cheetah Tigers and artists No orange, no climb A 

 Japanese family Reason at the Zoo Twilight animals . 249 



NOVEMBER II 



THE MYSTERIOUS FUNGUS 



Plants for the slug, flowers for the fly The wood- 

 witch Beefsteak A fairy grotto Luminous fungi A 

 mystery of growth Trains and rails of food Edible 

 fungi The two chautarelles Boleti Fungi of the double 

 life Ergot of rye Eaters of steel and glass . . . 262 



DECEMBER I 



CLEANING-UP TIME 



The leaves and the earth New view of the trees- 

 Revelations in the hedge Weeding out the birds Our 

 glorious stalwarts Our well- loved hedge-sparrow Tink- 

 ling tits Gold crest and brown Jenny Nature's hopper 

 The tit and the saw-fly Snippets of nothing Sur- 

 vival of the fittest 275 



DECEMBER II 



DEAD LOW 



Dead world and barren sky The optimist wren How 

 does the thrush know? Only skin-deep Floral hypo- 

 crites The aconite's summer Verdant setterwort 

 Daphne laurel Digging blackbirds Where the black- 

 bird sleeps Chilly twilight An amazing scarlet . 



