C O N T E N T S . CHAP. I. A ROADSIDE NATURALIST, 11. AMONG THE HILLS, . 111.. FIN AND FUR ON SURREY HILLS, IV. A SURREY RIVER, V. WAYS AND WHIMS OF FRESH-WATER FISHES, VI. NO MANS LAND, VII. A FOREST-FIRE, VIII. MORE FISHING NOTES, IX. WOODCOCK, SNIPE, AND PLOVER, X. WILD LIFE IN WINTER, PAGE i ON SURREY HILLS. CHAPTER I. A ROADSIDE NATURALIST. ENGLAND ha s been described by many a foreign visitor as the country par excellelzce of good roads and hedges, green turf and fruitful fields. Woods, moorlands, and heaths afford ...
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C O N T E N T S . CHAP. I. A ROADSIDE NATURALIST, 11. AMONG THE HILLS, . 111.. FIN AND FUR ON SURREY HILLS, IV. A SURREY RIVER, V. WAYS AND WHIMS OF FRESH-WATER FISHES, VI. NO MANS LAND, VII. A FOREST-FIRE, VIII. MORE FISHING NOTES, IX. WOODCOCK, SNIPE, AND PLOVER, X. WILD LIFE IN WINTER, PAGE i ON SURREY HILLS. CHAPTER I. A ROADSIDE NATURALIST. ENGLAND ha s been described by many a foreign visitor as the country par excellelzce of good roads and hedges, green turf and fruitful fields. Woods, moorlands, and heaths afford shelter to our wild creatures, and in some instances yield food also but the great bulk of animal and bird life lives and multiplies by the roadsides, or close to them. Some of the walks to my work have taken me over roads with never a house for two long miles. and moreroads protected on either side by high hedges that no rustic living could tell the age of, overgrown with grey moss and lichens, and having a broad stripe of A 2 ON SURREY HILLS. coarse turf on both sides, along which grew ha vkweed, vetches, thistles higher than myself, bryony, both white and black, and trailing brambles. Great clumps of rushes showed in all directions. Beyond the hedges fields extended, broken by copse-growth and woods. At certain seasons, when the weather has been rough, these long stretches of road-some portions of it under water-were almost as much as one could put up with. I can assure those townsfolk who send forth a cry that wild nature and scenery are becoming difficult to find, that any amount of both still exists, within a short rail vay ride from London. I could show them localities where they might, without the least trouble on their part, get lost in a perfect network ofbyroads, unknown to the general public. Once these were the regular beaten tracks leading from one lonely hamlet to another. The turf covers portions of them now but they are still easily distinguishable, and travellers on foot make use of them at rare intervals. On either side of many of these, banks, topped with remains of ancient thorn and plum trees, mark their course and such byroads are favourite feeding-haunts and playing-grounds for the creatures. A ROADSIDE NA TURALIST. 3 Our wild animals proper-such, at least, as show themselves under ordinary circumstances-are limited in number. It is ...
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