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or three more flies. I wish you would reach me those you have just 

 stuck up at the nursery-door." " I can't, my chuck ; they are to act 

 as mould candles, to keep away the bats which would eat you up." 

 " What are bats, mammy ? I never have seen such a thing in our 

 nursery." Pardon me, ye serious ornithologists. The subject on which 

 I am writing is a farce, and I must treat it as such. Ye grave doctors 

 in zoology, pardon the effusion. I cannot treat the subject otherwise. 



Incubatory propensities of the "Hedge Accentor'' 



Sir, Having examined attentively the article " Cuckoo " m your 

 last Chronicle, I beg to state for the benefit of your ornithological 

 perusers, that I have just now in a clipped holly-bush, a hedge 

 sparrow's nest with three unfledged young ones in it. On Wednes- 

 day last it had three eggs in it. On Saturday it contained three 

 young birds, apparently just hatched. This morning, Monday, I 

 have inspected the nest, with three little hedge-sparrows in it. They 

 gaped for their breakfast, and appear to be doing well. Men of 

 science now call this sweet warbler the hedge accentor ; but here, in 

 Yorkshire amongst us natives it always goes by the name of Dicky 

 Dunnock. Should any of your readers remark, with Cervantes, that 

 "one swallow does not make a summer" "una golondrinano hache 

 verano," I will further add that the year before last, in the last week 

 of August, I found a Dickey Dunnock's nest here, in a yew-bush, 

 with four eggs in it. 



To THE " GARDENERS' CHRONICLE" August 4, 1851. 



To the Rev. A. C. Smith. 



WALTON HALL, June 23, 1857. 



Dear Sir, I will try my best to give you the instructions you 

 require. You must not use arsenical soap, for two reasons. First, 

 as it cannot be applied to every part of the skin, inside and out, it is 

 not efficient. Secondly, the frequent use of it would injure your 

 health. Last year, seeing poor Mr Johnson, of the* Royal Liver- 

 pool Institution, broken down in health, I asked him to Walton 



