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CHAPTER IV. 



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Haunted by passages of music— The star-sluch — Verses on the crocus — 

 Highlanders in Selborne — Letter to Mary White — Verses on the rain- 

 bow — A quotation — A strange wedding — Advice to Edmund White 

 — The Temple — Dorchester Church — The sets of verses admired — 

 Mr. Barker's activity — Two agreeable young men — The "long- 

 continued haze" — "Metamorphosis" — "A Harvest Scene" — Verses 

 on wasps — The honey-market at Selborne — Carved stones at the 

 Priory farm — Lovely autumnal colours at Selborne . . . 89 



CHAPTER V. 



A recipe for a mad dog's bite — Verses on the "dark still weather" — A 

 Hectic heat — The Royal and Antiquaries' Societies' meetings — Two 

 grand rooms— A winter journey to Selborne— Sir S. Stuart's pedigree 

 — Mr. Etty dies — Whitchurch Rectory — Swallows and a married 

 man — The new Vicar at Selborne — ^Timothy is lost — Mr. Yalden's 

 illness — Madagascar tortoises described — The Mulsos visit Selborne 

 — Letter from Timothy — A tortoise's feelings — Madagascar tortoises 

 dead — High poor rates — Mr. Yalden is better — The tops of hop 

 plants should be nipped — A balloon journey — Selborne curacy re- 

 sumed — End of the balloon journey — A farmer's mistake — A new 

 way to Selborne — A great frost . . , , . Ill 



CHAPTER VL 



Death of Mr. Yalden — Edmund White the new Vicar of Newton — 

 Coccus mtis-viniferce — Mary White marries — Verses on the crocus — 

 An anecdote from Selborne— Rough roads to Selborne — Tortworth 

 Rectory vacant — Village amusements — Letter to Mary White — A 

 lottery prize — The Vicar of Selborne marries — The bride at Selborne 

 — Swallows in France — The number of his nephews and nieces — 

 Edmund White about to marry — Samuel Barker's marriage — Letter 

 to him — Benjamin White, senr., marries again — Dr. John White 

 elected to Salisbury Infirmary — Making a fairy ring . . . 141 



CHAPTER VII. 



The Wilts method of brewing — Samson White elected Fellow of Oriel 

 — "Cease to curatize" — Nature notes at S. Lambeth — R. Churton 

 at Selborne — Remark on hop-planting — Mulso urges publication — 

 The book in the press— Samson White receives an exhibition at Oriel 

 — Instructions for printing . . . . . 163 



CHAPTER VIII. 



A Selborne parish return — Selborne dames* schools — Cutting the Hanger 

 — Errata in the 'Selborne' — Finishing the Index — Letter to Mary 

 White — Fox-hunting parsons — Receives more proofs — Thomas 

 White's corrections — A search for torpid swallows — "Your embryo 

 glory " — Ready for publication — A full house — The book published — 

 A flattering reception — Mulso receives the book — His opinion of it . 174 



