Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-302).
Contents:
Part One: Writings on Agricultural and Social Affairs (1872-80). Wiltshire Labourers ; The Labourer's Daily Life ; The Gamekeeper at Home: The Man Himself, His House, and Tools ; Village Architecture: The Cottage Preacher, Cottage Society, The Shepherd, Events of the Village Year ; Hamlet Folk ; Minute Cultivation: A Silver Mine ; The Amateur Poacher: Oby and His System, The Moucher's Calendar ; The Hunting Picture: Its Defects and Difficulties -- Part Two: Natural History Writings (1878-86). Rooks Returning to Roost ; Wind-Anemones, The Fish Pond ; A Brook, a London Trout ; Mind Under Water ; The Modern Thames ; The Water-Colley ; Trees About Town ; Nightingales ; The Hovering of the Kestrel ; Out of Doors in February ; Haunts of the Lapwing: Winter -- Part Three: Late Essays (1882-7). Notes on Landscape Painting ; Walks in the Wheat-fields ; Nature and Books ; Absence of Design in Nature: The Prodigality of Nature and Niggardliness of Man ; One of the New Voters ; After the County Franchise ; Shooting Poachers ; Primrose Gold in Our Village ; Hours of Spring ; My Old Village.
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