A MORNING WALK. II 



game terrier will quickly shake them out of 

 their leathery skin of bristles, and I believe a 

 hungry fox will also attack and eat them. In 

 the summer evenings I often come across them 

 not far from the wood, hunting for food, and 

 grunting like a pig all the time. 



A Ladybird (coccinella) has alighted on my 

 coat sleeve. These gorgeous coloured beetles, 

 which children call " soldiers," from the colour 

 of their hard wing cases a bright scarlet 

 with dark spots on them are, unlike their 

 black-coated near relatives, of infinite good to 

 farmer and gardener, as they live, both in the 

 larvae and perfect state, on the aphides that 

 infest plants, and which include some of the 

 most destructive insects known. While I am 

 admiring the beauty of his colouring, he takes 

 wings and flies away, and in doing so displays 

 a set of wings under the elytra. 



A Cuckoo flies past, followed, about ten yards 

 behind, by the "Titling" (Meadow Pipit). What 

 attracts the Pipit to this wandering bird we 



