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Timothy Luff, a Wizard ; Superstitions 215 218 



Population 219 



Conjectured Meaning of some local names 221 224 



Great Well at Lady Holt, and others in Upper Chalk 224226 



Ancient Family of Cowper and Coles, Ditcham 226, 227 



Fears of French Invasion 228, 229 



Wellington Correspondence, Uppark 229, 230 



NATURAL HISTORY OF HARTING. 



CHAP. I. Quadrupeds 233 



Rabbit hunting extraordinary 248 



CHAP. II. Birds 252 



Hen's Egg 271 



" Mark that Woodcock" 291 



CHAP. III. Reptiles and Fishes 296 



Monster Carp 304 



CHAP. IV. Slugs and Snails 307 



Musical Snail 315 



CHAP. V. Insects. Beetles 324 



CHAP. VI. Earwigs. Cockroaches, Crickets, Grasshoppers and 



Locusts 345 



CHAP. VII. Thrips, Lace-winged Flies, May Flies 352 



CHAP. VIII. Bees, Wasps, Ants, and Ichneumons 366 



CHAP. IX. Butterflies and Moths 389 



Ghost Story 404 



"Sembling" 409 



CHAP. X. Frog-hoppers, Plant Lice, Scale Insects, Bugs and 



Fleas 420 



CHAP. XL Two-winged Flies 429 



CHAP. XII. Wingless Insects Mites, Spiders and Cudworms.. 445 



CHAP. XIII. Flora 459 



Timber Trees 459 



Flowering Plants 473 



Orchids 483 



Ferns 4^4 



Fungi 485 



Phallus impudicus 486 



