... NATURE NOTE FOR MAY pond to a spinney of alders; and where it waodcr3 its course Is At the edge of the meadow the I marked by Sol - oa r ; seals and yellow pimpernel stars ancient pond is nearly covered and lush-leaved plants that love by water crow-foot ...

... NATURE NOTE FOR NOVEMBER ------.-..--.- The open-air writer themes are all of the countrysla need never complain of — Give him a pencil. a sheet or - of rough paper, and set hi!.. down in a meadow or on in , fringe of a wood or beside small stream ...

... NATURE NOTE FOR DECEMBER The leaves, in many ahades of brown, amber, orange and russet. have now fallen thickly upon the woodland rides and pathways. They lie in the ditches and on the banks. hiding the green MOOS and contrasting well (as does the withered ...

... NATURE NOTE FOR AUGUST The large and handsome reo underwing moth can now be dis covered on rare and happy occ:, slona—among . the oak trees b day or 11 - tittering drunken , round the cottager% lamp art( darkness has fallen. Against bark of the oak pepper- ...

... NATURE NOTE FOR FEBRUARY Already the long twisting stems or bines of the wild honeysuckle bushes are covered with soft green leaves, and the hazel-catkins swing like a yellowy cloud through the copses. The grubs and other pests of the 'land have been ...

... NATURE NOTE FOR OCTOBER - - Across the stubble the splendidly-plumaged cock pheasants go gleaning and feeding by twos and by threes; and, caught in a suitable light, their flanks and breasts seem glowing with rose and bronze armour. The little delightful ...

... NATURE NOTE FOR MAY May is pre-eminently the month of the nightingale. In copses of hazel and birch he can often be heard throughout the long hours from dusk to dawn, singing to cheer his mate as she hatches her brown polished eggs at the base of some ...

... JANUARY NATURE NOTE The brooks, so diminished last summer and autumn by months of drought, are again in full flow. Every little runnel contributes its quota, and where large stones or masses of debris have obstructed the course of the stream there are ...

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... NATURE NOTE: THE SPIDERS. THE CLOCH. Our clock has such a merry fare. And from his corner in the hall He me go in and out. Upstairs and down I hear his He tells me when it's time to rise. rings so loudly when it's eight; And oh. I'm sure he loots at me ...

... A NATURE NOTE. He seemed so grateful for the little service that I had rendered him and with • God blase you. sir, he hurried away. He spoke with great emotion and I thought he seemed a little ashamed of his sorry plight. I know that there was. at any ...

... A Nature Note --•---- THE FICKLENESS OF FISH. [By C. H. P.) VRW creatures are more fickle than A Recently I spent an enjoyable Sunday I angling with a friend. We were only a I yards apart and yet I had • good catch of roach, whereas he did not have so ...