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INDEX 



Sussex peasants, their character- 

 istics, 105, 111 



Swallow, in the down country, 

 184 ; bat-like sensitiveness of 

 wings of, 187 



Swifts, in the downs, 198 ; a 

 workman's explanation of tlieir 

 ways, 199 ; parasites on, 200 ; 

 power of rising from a flat sur- 

 face, 200 ; their struggle with 

 starlings, 201 ; their nightly 

 retreat to the sky discussed, 

 201-204 ; hen-birds driven to 

 their nests, 201 



Telegraph poles in the laud- 

 scape, 196 



Telegraph wires, their service to 

 perching birds, 194, 196 ; their 

 music, 197 ; in South America, 

 197 ; tiifficulty of certain birds 

 in grasping, 250 



Temperance, causes working for, 

 269 



Thirst, an experience of, 178 



Thistle, bees intoxicated by 

 honey of, 68 ; the dwarf, 4, 58 ; 

 the woolly, 45 



Thistle-down, 2 ; South Ameri- 

 can, 3 



" Threshold of England, the," 7, 

 129 



Thrift, or sea-pink, white gulls 

 on, 89 



Thyme, lasting fragrance of, 49 ; 

 its attraction for certain flies, 

 62, 63 



" Tied " system of public-houses, 

 106 



Tillage, former, its effect on 

 vegetation, 39 



Tour throufjh Great Britain, 

 Young's, quoted as to use of 

 oxen, 34 



Tramps, encounters with, 14, 



158, 160, 173 ; at :Midhurst, 

 268 



" Traveller's Joy," its name due 

 to Gerarde, 56 ; on the downs, 

 234 



Trotton, Otway bom at, 220 



Turf of the downs, 38 ; its frag- 

 rance, 39 ; slow in forming, 40 



Turtle-dove common in down- 

 laud, 91 



" Upset," an, a comprehensive 



term, 110 

 " Ur-grass," 51 



Valleys of the downs, herons 

 in, 88 



Vegetation, special, of formerly 

 tilled soil, 39-41 



Viper's bugloss, 45 



Vision, Piers Plowman's, quoted, 

 171, 172 



Vision of "the generations of 

 deciduous men," 212; of the 

 drink demon, 265 



Voices, Sussex, 144; lasting im- 

 pression left by sweetness of, 

 145, 146 ; heard from afar on 

 the downs, 149, 150 



Wages of the Sussex shepherd, 



124, 135 ; formerly paid partly 



in kind, 126 

 Wales, black oxen introduced 



from, 34 

 Water, a cup of cold, 178 

 Waterfowl, Chichester harbour a 



winter haunt of, 241 

 Watson, Mrs. Marriott, her poem 



On the Dozens quoted, 36 

 Weather, gloomy, pleasures of, 



248 

 Well, drawing water at a, 179 

 West Dean, spoonbills formerly 



nesting at, 84; yew grove near, 



290 



