... Nature Notes. {By MaARY OAKDEN.} This drop of ink in my pen, I think I may claim, has been drawn from the most ancient inkwell that ever was used. Since any vessel which may be made to contain ink is, ipso facto, an inkwell, at any rate for the time being ...

... Nature Notes. [BY MARY OAKDEN.] 'fhe chaffinch. which came every day in early spring to my back garden for crumbs, was but the forerunner of many more that were to cross my path. He was a shy bird, and his lively call of. ‘pink, -pink, pink,” prightened ...

... NATURE NOTES. (By MARY OAKDEN, To-day is Easter Sunday. All through the hours of daylight until the gloaming, as I have ‘seen it from my window, the day has been one of wide, far-reaching spaces,—cool, sunny, infinite, stretching -away at this hour to’ ...

... NATURE NOTES. (By MARY OAKDEN), November 16th:—The pageant of autumn is not yet at an end, though a full gale has been blowing all day, and two of the giant eims of the avenue still clothed in yellow leaves lie prone along the meadow. To-morrow the c ...

... NATURE NOTES. (By MARY OAKDEN). The purpling elms of the avenus, which 1 see from my window, bear witness to the advent of spring. Thousands of bundles of stamens have turned even their topmost twigs to a dusky, misty purple, impalpable as a cloud in ...

... NATURE NOTES. (By MARY OAKDEN). In late September I made my fourth journey to Dartmoor. There seems to be a magnetism about that great waste of heather, bog, and grotesque tors looming weirdly from out of a Devonshire mist, or more happily, silhouetted ...

... NATURE NOTES, {(By MARY OAKDEN; } Much wature lore is heard about the { wonders of protective colouring in animal, ' bird and plant life. 1 wish we heard more ‘tabout the harmony of colouring which meets !'rhe eye on every side, for by the beauty of things ...

... NATURE NOTES. (By MARY OAKDEN). Lovers of Thomas Hardy who know * The Return of the Native,”’—that masterpiece of the great movelist, will be already aware that Dorset contains a vast expanse of waste land known by the name of Lgdon Heath Nowhere in these ...

... NATURE NOTES. (By MARY OAKDEN). Of Arthurian legend there is no éend. That fact, however, does not lessen the romance attendant upon visiting places with which his name is connected, be he the Arthur of romance or the reigning prince of ancient history ...

... - NATURE NOTES. (By MARY - OAKDEN). When the morning sun in January first glints over Bothenwood, lights up Watton, and Coneyger, and bathes the grey, lichencovered trunks of the pine trees on all three hills in a pinkish-helio light, then is the time ...

... NATURE NOTES, (By MARY OAKDEN). House Martins last year built a big clay nest under the front gable of the house and reared a brood of young there. On their return in the spring this year, 1628, sparrows were found in possession. A series of disorderly ...

... NATURE NOTES. (By MARY OAKDEN). November 19. The night-caps of paper worn during‘ ground-frosts by my neighbours® bronze chrysanthemums, have® proveq useless before the recent rains; and they, like the roses and variously coloured 'mums of my own garden ...