x CONTENTS. 



LETTER IX. In a suburban garden, continued 

 Thrush feeding a young one Garden warbler 

 My garden nuisances, cats Kittens in a cupboard 

 Our Charlie 80 



LETTER X. Wood-pigeons, magpies, and rooks 

 Climbing to their nests Do rooks say caw-caw or 

 au-awr? 86 



LETTER XI. A day with the Mayfly-fishers Birth, 

 life, and death of a May fly 94 



LETTER XII. The May fly entomologically con- 

 sidered 101 



LETTER XIIL Jubilee fly-fishing On the sands at 

 the seaside In a menagerie Dog and wolf 

 Fishing for dabs on the jetty The cuckoo . 109 



LETTER XIV. Two more days at a farmhouse 

 An afternoon's rabbiting My first shot for forty 

 years 119 



LETTER XV. An evening with the hornets . . 124 



