Wild Life in a Southern County 



CHAPTER VII. 



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The Farmhouse. Traditions : Hunting Pictures : The Farmer's 

 Year: Sport: The Auction Festival : A Summer's Day : Beauty 

 of Wheat 102 



CHAPTER VHI. 



Birds of the Farmhouse. Speech of a Starling : Population of 

 a Gable : The King of the Hedge : The Thrush's Anvil , . 120 



CHAPTER IX. 



The Orchard. Emigrant Martins : The Missel-Thrush : Caravan 

 Boute of Birds and Animals : A Fox in Ambush : A Snake in a 

 Clock 137 



CHAPTER X. 



The Woodpile. Lizards : Sheds and Eickyard : The Witches' 

 Briar : Insects : Plants, Flowers, and Fruit .... 154 



CHAPTER XI. 



The Home-Field. Hazel Corner: The Divining Bod: Babbits' 

 Holes : The Corncrake : Ventriloquism of Birds : Hedge-Fruit . 170 



CHAPTER XII. 



The Asji Copse. The Nightingale : Cloud of Starlings: Hedge- 

 hogs. Heron's Mead : Moorhens. Among the Eeeds , . 185 



CHAPTER XITI. 



THE Warren. Babbit Burrows : Ferrets : The Quarry.— The 

 Forest : Squirrels : Beer : Dying Babbit : A Hawk , . 199 



