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CHAPTER VII. 



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The Farmhouse. Traditions : Hunting Pictures : Tlie 

 Farmer's Year : Sport : Tlie Auction Festival : A 

 Summer's Day : Beauty of Wlicat 112 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Birds of the Farmhouse. Speech of a Starling : 

 Population of a Gable : The King of the Hedge : The 

 Thrush's Anvil 132 



CHAPTER IX. 



The Orchard. Emigrant Martins : The Missel-Thrush : 

 Caravan Poute of Birds and Animals : A Fox in 

 Ambush: A Snake in a Clock 150 



CHAPTER X. 



The Woodpile. Lizards: Sheds and Rickyard : The 



Witches' Briar : Insects : Plants, Flowers, and Fruit . 169 



CHAPTER XI. 



The Home-Field. Hazel Corner : The Divining-Rod : 

 Rabbits' Holes : The Corncrake : Ventriloquism of 

 Birds : Hedge-Fruit 187 



CHAPTER XII. 



The Ash Copse. The Nightingale : Cloud of Starlings : 

 Hedgehogs. — Heron's Mead : Moor-hens. Among 

 the Reeds 203 



CHAPTER XIII. 



The Warren. Rabbit Burrows : Ferrets : The Quarry. 

 — The Forest. Squirrels: Deer: Dying Rabbit: 

 A Hawk 218 



