2J4 FROM SPRING TO FALL. 



from home ; and that is ever best that lies nearest to 

 one's dwelling-place. 



I have at times pointed out things to people 

 vastly interested — at least they said they were 

 so — in all matters concerning rural life. I have 

 even lent them my glasses to examine what I had 

 pointed out with the naked eye ; but no, they could 

 not see anything special. And yet some of them 

 passed as naturalists ! 



Shelter - grounds and feeding - grounds are two 

 very different matters : any creature furred or 

 feathered may have its haunt in a certain place, 

 but it may go a mile or miles away to feed. Some 

 of the raptores drop their quarry, if it is large, 

 in the nesting season when their young clamour 

 so, out of sheer weariness, returning to it after- 

 wards to break it up and feed their young with it 

 piecemeal. 



The fox carries his prey off by instalments. For 

 instance, he will kill four or five fowls or ducks ; 

 he is not particular — first come, first killed. One 

 at a time he carries them off and conceals them; 

 as a rule, they are buried — it is certainly only 

 a slight burial at times. Then he takes the last 



