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CHAPTER III. 



PAGE 



Majnifisence and money — Waterton'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 — Esho at Walton HaU — ^West 

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

 pike — Spot where Waterton fell 35 — 4S 



CHAPTER IT. 



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 — When to paint timber — Oaken gates of the old 

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

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

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

 cUmbing — 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'/i^pspitalitv — " Tlie 

 Squire " — A decayed mill and abandoned stone — The stone iiflt 'i 

 off the ground by a hazel nut 49 ■ji 



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 nomenclature — 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, 73— cStj 



