INDEX. 



ABBOTSFORD, 229, 275. 

 Abinger, 171-172. 

 Acklington, 293, 301. 

 Alder-trees, 50. 

 Allen, Mr. Grant, 236. 

 Anemones, wild, 77, 97. 

 Argyll, Duke of (quoted), 211. 

 Armstrong, Lord, 296. 

 Ash, the, 86-88 ; mountain, 139. 

 Ashestiel, 272. 



BABOONS killing lambs, 33-34. 

 Barley, 151. 

 Beaumont, the, 307. 

 Beech, the copper, 19, 139. 

 Beeches, 97, 119, 137, 179. 

 Bees, 44, 47, 132, 165, 1 94-1 97- 

 Bee-sting not only for stinging, 



204. 

 Beetles, 166, 168. 



water, 66. 



Besant, Mr. Walter, 303. 

 Birch, the, 86, 87, 139. 

 Bird-catchers, 120. 

 Birds,'perseverance of, 63. 

 Blackbird, the, 29, 37, in, 112, 



115-116, 284. 



Blue-tit, the, 26, 27, 113, 116. 

 Boatman, the water, 65. 

 Box-nests, 141. 

 "Bracelets" Lackey moth's eggs, 



89. 

 Brambles, 105. 



I Brancepeth Castle, 281. 



Brinkbtirn Priory, 299. 

 j Browning, Robert (quoted), 99. 



Mrs. Barrett (quoted), 84, 



150. 



Buchanan, Robert, and the star- 

 ling, Si- 



Buckland, Frank, 222. 



Bull, an infuriated, 130. 



Bullace-trees, 51, 80. 



Bullfinch, the, 27, 35, 120-121, 



122. 



Bulrush, the, 191, 192. 



Burns, Robert (quoted), 17, 76. 



Burroughs, John (quoted), 118, 



199, 200, 257. 

 Buttercups, 136. 

 Butterflies, 71, 132, 165. 



CATTLE awakening, 121. 

 Cats, poaching, 124-125. 

 Cedar, the, 42, 138. 

 Celandine, 97. 

 Cereals, varieties of, 157. 

 Chaffinch, the, 40-42, 122. 

 Chestnut, the, 138. 

 Chestnut-buds, gummy, 45. 

 Cheswick, 292. 

 Cheviot Hills, 289-303. 

 Chevy Chase, 314. 

 Chillingham cattle, 314. 

 Churches in Wooler, 309. 

 Cloisters, leafy, 139. 



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