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NEIGHBOURHOOD

A YEAR’S LIFE IN ANDABOUT

AN ENGLISH VILLAGE

BY
TICKNER EDWARDES
AUTHOR OF ‘THE LORE OF THEHONEY-BEE’

WITH EIGHTILLUSTRATIONS

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY
31 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET

1912

p.vCONTENTS

			PAGE
INTRODUCTION			xi
JANUARY			1
	I.	Hard Times—Wild Life and the Frost—The Thaw atLast—Solitude and a Fireside—CricketMusic—Fiction and Life—Wood versus Coal.
	II.	Truantry—Spring in January—Wind and Sun on theDowns—A Shepherd Family—Brothers inArms—‘Rowster’—TheFolding-Call—Dew-Ponds and their Making—The Sign inthe Sky.
	III.	The Starling Host.
FEBRUARY			27
	I.	The Village Green—Daybreak—The MorningDew.
	II.	Under the ‘Seven Sisters’—CourtingDays.
	III.	The Elm Blossom—A Wild Night—By theRiver—The Hazel-Wood—Meadow Life
	IV.	The Coming of the Lambs—Night in theLambing-Pens—The Luck of Windlecombe—‘WhiteEye.’
p.viMARCH			55
	I.	The Woodland Clearing—Rabbit and Stoat—TheRain Bird—‘Skugging’—The Lovers’Tree—An Adventure in Forestry.
	II.	The ‘Sea-Blue Bird of March’—The OldFerryman.
	III.	Lion and Lamb—The Churchyard Wall—Yew andAlmond-Tree—Evensong—A Prophet of Evil.
	IV.	Wild March—Rejuvenation—On theDowns—River and Brook—The Long White Road—AMystery of Rubies—The Thrush. ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN! Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR!