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CHAPTER V. 



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Gilbert White Curate of Durley— "A clergyman should not be idle"— 

 A musical family— Illness of his father— Lends Mulso a horse- 

 Visits Oxford— The disputes there— Curate of West Dene— Second 

 visit to Bristol Hot- well— Life at West Dene— Also Curate of Newton 

 Valence— Improves the Selborne gardens— Visits Sunbury and Oxford 



Stories in common-room — Again Curate of Selborne— Stands for 



Provostship of Oriel— Temporary Curate of Dene and Newton- 

 Receives Moreton Pinkney living— Vicar of Selborne dies— More 

 improvements at Selborne — Late martens . . . . 76 



CHAPTER VI. 



Death of Gilbert White's father— Retains his Fellowship— Mulso's 

 opinion — Interested misrepresentations — The Provost accepts Gilbert 

 White's explanation — A modern attack on his conduct — His real 

 pecuniary position — His parents' marriage settlement — His conduct 

 defended — Not a pluralist — Nor a sinecure clergyman — More 

 alterations at Selborne— A motto for the Hermitage— Letter from 

 Gibraltar— Invitation to Yorkshire— Ceases to be Curate of Selborne 

 — Visits London and Lyndon . . . . . 98 



CHAPTER VII. 



An addition to the garden at Selborne — Hester Mulso marries — Recon- 

 ciliation with Provost Musgrave — More improvements at Selborne — 

 More land acquired— Builds a fruit wall — Rebecca White marries — 

 Fruit trees planted— A Hussar Parson— Curate of Faringdon — Henry 

 White becomes Rector of Fyfield — Death of Charles White— Inherits 

 The Wakes — Applies for a living — The Bishop on the subject — 



^ Visitors at Selborne — "A little journal" — A ball at the Vicarage — 

 Amusements at Selborne — A party at The Wakes — Verses by Gilbert 

 White — Elegy by Harry White — The Shepherdesses leave Selborne — 

 "Kitty's farewell to the stump" — Mulso upon the living applied 

 for — Upon the Shepherdesses . . . . . 117 



CHAPTER VIII. 



A heartwhole bachelor — Visits Fyfield — Writes verses — Intention to 

 marry — Refuses Cholderton Rectory — Plans journey to Yorkshire — 

 Tortworth Rectory vacant— Studies Botany — Visit to Oxford — Mulso 

 advises matrimony — A 'Flora Selborniensis' — First letter to Pennant 

 —Bell's criticism of Pennant— Cromhall Rectory refused — Describes 



„ the Harvest House— The Naturalist's Journal— The Provost of Oriel 

 dies— Pennant invited to Selborne— Cholderton again vacant— Voyage 

 of Joseph Banks — Pennant's 'British Zoology ' — Swallows and 

 swifts— Naturalists happy men— Pennant's candour praised— Mulso 

 upon Nature— White congratulates Pennant — First letter to 

 Barrington— Naturalists at Selborne— John White's collections— A 

 bad traveller now— The secret of the Hermitage . . . 142 



