THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 



PART SECOND. 



ROOKS RETRIBUTION. 



SPRING is the season at which every man that can 

 get abroad into the fields (and who would live and not 

 inhale the vernal air ?) is a naturalist. It is the dawn 

 of life, the emblem of creation. The creatures rejoice. 

 Those which man has domesticated and protected 

 during the inclement months, are affected by their first 



