x Contents. 
CHAPTER VII. 
PAGE 
THE FARMHOUSE. Traditions: Hunting Pictures: The Farmer’s 
Year: Sport: The Auction Festival: A Summer’s Day: 
Beauty of Wheat . . 126 
CHAPTER VIIL 
Birds OF THE FarmuouseE, Speech of a Starling: Popula- 
tion of a Gable: The King of the Hedge: The Thrush’s 
Anvil. 0. a te Moe ere: 
CHAPTER IX, 
Tur ORCHARD. Emigrant Martins: The Missel-Thrush: Caravan 
Route of Birds and Animals: A Fox in Ambush: A Snake in 
a Clock ‘ : r s A ‘ ‘ : ‘ . 169 
CHAPTER NX. 
Tue Wooprite. Lizards: Sheds and Rickyard: The Witches’ 
Briar: Insects: Plants. Flowers, and Fruit . ; 190 
CHAPTER XI. 
Tue Home-Firtp. Hazel Corner: The Divining-Rod ; 
Rabbits’ Holes: The Corncrake: Ventriloquism of Birds: 
Iledge-Fruit é ‘ : ‘ : ‘ ‘ : » 210 
CHAPTER XII. 
THE AsH Corse. The Nightingale : Cloud of Starlings : Hedge- 
hogs. Hrron’s Mrap: Moorhens. Among the Reeds . 228 
CHAPTER XI11. 
THE WARREN. Rabbit Burrows: Ferrets: ‘The Quarry. —THE 
Forest: Squirrels: Deer: Dying Rabbit: A Hawk, + 245 
