OF RICHARD JEFFERIES 



A BARNYARD chanticleer and 

 his family afford more matter 

 than the best book ever 

 written. His coral red comb, his sil- 

 very scaled legs, his reddened feathers, 

 and his fiery attitudes, his jolly crow, 

 and all his ways— there 's an illustrated 

 pamphlet, there's a picture-book for 

 you in one creature only ! Reckon his 

 family, the tender little chicks, the 

 enamelled eggs, the feeding every day, 

 the roosting, the ever-present terror of 

 the red wood-dog (as the gypsies call the 

 fox), here 's a Chronicon Nurembergense 

 with a thousand woodcuts; a whole 

 history.— 'Field and Hedgerow ' : Walks 

 in the Wheatfields. 



THE sweet violets bloom afresh 

 every spring on the mounds, 

 the cowslips come, and the 

 happy note of the cuckoo, the wild rose 

 of midsummer, and the golden wheat of 



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