CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER III. 



FAQE 



Magnificence and money — "Waterfcon's mode of life and personal ex- 

 penses — Sleeping on planks — His visits to the chapel —The " morning 

 gun " — The razor and the lancet — Reduction of the family estates — 

 His work at Walton Hall — Natural advantages of the place — The 

 wall and its cost — Bargees and their guns — Instinct of the herons — 

 Herons and fish-ponds — Drainage of the ponds — The moat extended 

 into a lake— Old Gateway and Ivy-Tower — Siege by Oliver Crom- 

 well — Tradition of a musket-ball — Drawbridge and gateway in the 

 olden times — Tradition of a canon-ball — Both ball and canon dis- 

 covered — Sunken plate and weapons — Echo at Walton Hall — ^West 

 view of lake — How to strengthen a bank — Pike-catching — Cats and 

 pike— Spot where Waterton fell ... . . 35—48 



CHAPTER IV. 



Love of trees — Preservation of damaged trees — How trees perish — 

 Wind and rain — Self-restorative powers of the bark — Hidden foes 

 — The fungus and its work — Use of the woodpecker and titmouse — 

 How to utilize tree-stumps — The cole titmouse — Owl-house and 

 seat — Dry-rot — 'V^Tien to paint timber — Oaken gates of the old 

 tower — Command over trees — How to make the holly grow quickly 

 — The holly as a hedge-tree — Pheasant fortresses — Artificial 

 pheasants — The poachers outwitted — Waterton's power of tree 

 climbing — An aerial study ,— Ascending and descending trees — 

 Church and State trees — The yew — A protection against cold winds 

 — Yew hedge at back of gateway^The Starling Tower — Familiarity 

 of the birds — The Picnic or Grotto — Waterton's hospitality—^' The 

 Squire " — A decayed mill and abandoned stone — The stone lifted 

 off the ground by a hazel nut 49 — 71 



CHAPTER V. 



The Squire's " dodges" — The " cat-holes "'—The dove-cot — ^Pigeon-shoot- 

 ing matches and mode of supplying the birds — Waterton's pigeon- 

 house, external and internal — Pigeon-stealers baffled — Arrangement 

 of pigeon-holes — Ladders not needed — How to feed pigeons econo- 

 mically — Eats and mice in the garden — The poison-bowl and its 

 safety — Sunken mousetrap — Gates and chains — The carriage-pond 

 — Waterton's antipathy to scientific nomenclature — ^Advantage of 

 such nomenclature as an assistant to science — Popular and local 

 names — Colonists and their nomenblature — Zoology gone mad — 

 Complimentary nomenclature — The fatal accident in the park — 

 Waterton's last moments and death — The last voyage and funeral 

 — Epitaph written by himself — The new cross, and place of burial, 72 — 86 



