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INDEX 



233; dedication of his book, 



233 

 Girl, classic appearance of, 119; 



a sweet- voiced, 145 ; acting as 



shepherd, 149 

 " Gluttonism," De Quincey on, 



70 

 Goldfinch, rarity of, 242 

 Good looks and good blood, 121 

 Goring, Richard Jefferies' home 



at, 16 

 Grasshoppers, kestrels preying 



on, 90 

 "Gratton grass," 40 

 Grebe, great crested, 242 

 Grove of yews at Kingly Bottom, 



226 

 Groves on hill-tops, 232 

 GUnther, Dr., on tame adders, 



100 

 Guillemot, disappearance of, from 



Sussex, 81 

 Gull, black-headed, following the 



plough, 88 ; standing motion- 

 less, 246 ; herring, breeding on 



Seaford Head, 89; buffeted by 



kestrel, 89 



Harebell, its abundance on the 



downs, 50, 51 

 Hat, tweed, advantages of, 179 

 Hawks, wheatears taken from 



the coops by, 135 

 " Hawth," or furze, 82, 84 

 Hawthorn, character of its 



growth, 229; its individuality, 



230 

 Hay, William, of Glyndbourne, 



9; quoted as to the weald, 



215 

 Head, how to keep it cool in 



summer, 174 

 Heat always tolerable on the 



hills, 176 

 Heather on the downs, 49 



Hen - harrier, disappearance of, 



from Sussex, 81 

 Herons in the maritime district, 



242 

 Heronry at Parham, 88 

 Home-feeling, intensity of, 296 

 Honey-buzzard, disappearance of, 



from Sussex, 81 

 Horizon, a wide, its fascination, 



28 

 Horses, their terror at drifts of 



thistle-down, 3 ; seaweed eaten 



by, 18 ; oxen superseded by, 35 

 House-martins at Ditchling, 194 ; 



their rapid increase, 195 

 Humble-bee, his diligence, 67 ; 



overcome by thistle honey, 68 ; 



an esteemed insect, 69 

 Hurdis, the Rev. James, a Sussex 



writer, 9; his Village Curate, 



10 ; his Favorite Village, 11 ; 



quoted as to wheatear catching, 



132 

 Hut, the shepherd's, 82 



Inns at Chichester, 259 ; at Mid- 



hurst, 267 

 Insects of the downs, 59; nature 



of sleep in, 66; their nightly 



enemies, 67 ; their autumnal 



vanishing, 207 

 Iron workers, wooded region 



changed by, 215 

 Iter Sussexiense, by Dr. John 



Burton, 147 



Janin, Jules, his description of 



the lobster, 148 

 Jeffries, Richard, his connection 



with Sussex, 14 ; his death at 



Goring, 16 

 Jennings, Louis, his PMinbles 



among the Hills, 7 

 Jexangton, stone curlews recently 

 I breeding near, 85, 86 



