g=^<K NATURE NEAR LONDON 



old familiar places, and five or six, or even more, 

 come out at once to feed in the meadows or on the 

 lawns by the water. 



Green plovers, or peewits, come in small flocks 

 to the fields recently ploughed ; sometimes scarcely 

 a gunshot from the walls of the villas. The tiny 

 golden-crested wrens are comparatively numerous 

 near town the heaths with their bramble thickets 

 doubtless suit them ; so soon as the leaves fall 

 they may often be seen. 



