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Presently the vixen trotted off a little way and 

 lay down ; and while we were watching her a rabbit 

 popped out of his burrow, and came several yards 

 towards Reynard without seeing her. With one 

 bound fox was upon bunny, and the pair rolled over 

 and over down the hill. The captor then slunk off 

 with her captive, not to her young ones, but to a 

 quiet hole in the cliff', to have a gorge all by her 

 greedy self. 



In a hollow tree in the cliff we found three jack- 

 daws' nests, each with four eggs in ; and we were 

 amused at watching a woodpecker tapping aw T ay at 

 a tree. The noise produced was like that made by 

 drawing a stick very rapidly over some wooden 

 palings, and quite as loud, or even more like a 

 watchman's rattle worked rather slowly. A curious 

 spectacle was presented in the lane on going home. 

 It was a warm damp night, and every dozen yards 

 or so a glow r worm exhibited its eerie light, and each 

 successive one seemed to shine more whitely and 

 brightly than the last. 



The day was done, its pleasure seized, and — no, 

 not gone, for a pleasant memory remains wdierewith 

 to delight myself, and perchance please my friends, 

 among whom I would fain number all angling 

 readers. 



