PREFACE. xi. 



whilst working on my farm — whilst mingling with the universe by 

 the brook-side and elsewhere — so I experienced difficulty in placing 

 them exactly in their proper places without considerable loss of 

 time and trouble. But although I should not have minded this, if 

 absolutely necessary, I venture to think that changing about from 

 one subject to another will render what I have written less tedious 

 than otherwise it might have been. 



Scraps of m}' text, here and there, have appeared in print before, 

 and the whole of the last two chapters, " On the Riviera," were 

 published in " The Field,'' so I have to express my thanks to 

 the Editor for allowing me to reproduce them here. 



The men who work on my farm and other residents of the village 

 tell me they hope to read what I have written in the following 

 pages. As comparatively few of them have extended their travels 

 even so far as London, it appears to me that portions of my text 

 which relates to mammoths, bull-fighting, and chasing painted 

 ladies, might be misinterpreted without illustrations. I have 

 accordingly introduced such pictures as I have found available, 

 for their benefit ; and I trust, if by chance the polite and learned 

 remember having seen something similar before, that they will 

 pass them over without unfavourable comment. Messrs. Black- 

 wood, of Edinburgh, very kindly presented me with pictures of 

 the mammoth and fish-lizard skeletons, and I am indebted to my 

 niece. Miss Alice Lockwood, at the Rectory, for the portraits which 

 appear on pages 36, 43. 7 1. 73- 



EDWARD LOCKWOOD. 



KiNGHAM. 



