Ti TO THE READER 



animals and plants, there are some desultory gleanings 

 from bygone history and such musings as pass through 

 the mind of one dwelling amid rustic scenes. Pass 

 through — aye, and so most apt to pass away, unless 

 one pins them down before they vanish in the throng 

 of new impressions. 



HERBERT MAXWELL. 



MONREITH, 1919. 



