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hedge ; we find it to be a tiny footpath, shel- 

 tered by high fences, and a regular sun-trap, 

 blazing with wild flowers, a butterflies' para- 

 dise. As usual, the whites are most conspicuous. 

 The majority of these prove to be the " green- 

 veined " sort, only a few the common or 

 " garden " ; but though the whites are most 

 conspicuous, browns are far more numerous, 

 chiefly the Meadow Brown and the Large Heath, 

 both, for some unknown reason, more brilliant 

 on the under than the upper side, perhaps 

 because more often than not they close their 

 wings when settled on a bright background. 

 We leave these varieties at large, but secure 

 two good specimens of the Wall Brown, with 

 its orange and sepia markings ; we want them 

 for the collection. At the end of the little 

 path we find the haunt of the Red Admirals 

 and Peacocks, and we have better luck with 

 them this time, at the expense of a rent in the 

 net, again caught in a bramble. 



It gets hotter and hotter, so hot that the call 

 of the cool sea is irresistible, and we turn on our 

 way homeward across country, noting the wild 

 flowers in the banks and hedgerows that we pass. 



And so to the beach and a glorious swim, 

 followed by the drying of ourselves in the hot 

 sand of a wee valley screened by the dunes. 



