CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XLVIII. 



PAHE 



Crops — Potato Slug — Fern Slug — Brackens ; How thoroughly to extir- 

 pate them — The Merlin, Falcon, and Tringa, .... 290 



CHAPTER XLIX. 



The Hedgehog an Egg and Bird Eater? — Bird-catching — " Old Cowie " 

 — Mackenzie —iamus Exevhiior — The Butcher-Bird or Shrike — Tea- 

 Drinking and Sobriety, . . . . . . . . 30-' 



CHAPTER L. 



Superstition amongst the People — DifiBoulty of dealing with it — Ex- 

 amples of Superstitions still prevalent in the Highlands — Cock-crow- 

 ing at untimely hours — Itching of the Nose — Ringing in the Ears — 

 The " Dead-Bell "—Sir Walter Scott— Hogg— Mickle, . . . 313 



CHAPTER LI. 



Welcome Rain in May — Plague of Mice in Upper Teviotdale — A rvlcoln 

 Agrestis — Field-Mice in Ardgour — How exterminated — A Singing 

 Mouse — Farmers' Mistakes — Mackenzie the Bird-catcher, . . 319 



CHAPTER LII. 



Tourist Grumblers ; how to deal with them — Sea Fishing — Superstition 



about a Gull — Josephus — Story of Mosollam and the Augur, . 327 



CHAPTER LIII. 



Heat in Mid-August — Early Planting and Sowing — Over-ripening of 

 Crops — Medusse— Stinging Jelly-Fish — The amoimt of solid matter 

 in Jelly-Fish, 334 



CHAPTER LIV. 



Approach of Winter — Contentedne.ss of the People — Poets and Wild- 

 Bird Song — Differences in the Colouring nnd Markings of Birds' 

 Eggs — Late Nest-building — .Vnecdote of Provost Robertson of Ding- 

 wall, Mr, Gladstone's Grandfather, 341 



