WILD LIFE STUDIES by Frances Pitt Illustrated by G. E. Collins THOMAS NELSON AND SONS LTD London Edinburgh Paris Toronto New York Hundreds of thousands of starling voices. TO MY PEOPLE CONTENTS v INTRODUCTION AN ELF OF THE TWILIGHT 9 THE RAIDER OF THE CRAGS . . . 15 THE LITTLE GENTLEMAN IN A RED COAT . 25 PUFFIN TOWN ........ 33 BABIES OF THE AUTUMN STORMS 43 A HIGHWAYMAN OF THE SKIES .... 53 THE FEROCIOUS SHREW 61 THE PLAINTIVE PEWIT 69 THE SLEEPER, 79-AT THE BREAK OF DAY .... 89 A DAINTY CREATURE OF THE CORN ... 99 A BIRD ...
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WILD LIFE STUDIES by Frances Pitt Illustrated by G. E. Collins THOMAS NELSON AND SONS LTD London Edinburgh Paris Toronto New York Hundreds of thousands of starling voices. TO MY PEOPLE CONTENTS v INTRODUCTION AN ELF OF THE TWILIGHT 9 THE RAIDER OF THE CRAGS . . . 15 THE LITTLE GENTLEMAN IN A RED COAT . 25 PUFFIN TOWN ........ 33 BABIES OF THE AUTUMN STORMS 43 A HIGHWAYMAN OF THE SKIES .... 53 THE FEROCIOUS SHREW 61 THE PLAINTIVE PEWIT 69 THE SLEEPER, 79-AT THE BREAK OF DAY .... 89 A DAINTY CREATURE OF THE CORN ... 99 A BIRD STUDY IN NORWAY .... 109 THE MINERS, 117 NATURES ACROBATS ...... 123 PRICKLES -. 133 A BIRD OF THE NIGHT 143 A MIGHTY NIMROD .... 153 A MILLION STARLINGS 163 BI D-WATCHING IN THE RAIN .... 173 A VERY MEEK CREATURE ..... 181 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Author acknowledges her indebtedness to the Editors of The Nation, Country Life, The Spectator, and The National Review for kindly allowing her to make use here of essays that have previously appeared in their pages. ILLUSTRATIONS Hundreds of thousands of starling voices Frontispiece The bank vole wanders forth .... 28 When the kestrel has a mouse beneath him . 56 The plaintive pewit 72 A harvest mouse will balance itself on an ear of wheat 102 Blue tit, great tit, coal tit . . . . .126 The hedgehog leaves its hole ., . .138 Two of the mites draw together . . . .178 A striped face looking out of the gloom . .186 INTRODUCTION THESE essays, mostly on familiar birds and beasts, will, the author hopes, enlist the readers interest in the life around us the life of furred and feathered creatures, which has so much in common with our own, though we do not always realize it. Strenuous lives have their existence in the hedge sidejungles at our doors, where there is love, hate, and fear, battle, murder, and sudden death joyful dancing creatures also wing their way through the evening air each summer night, to say nothing of those that dwell in meadow, copse, and dingle. All these beings have character, individuality, and personality, and it is as real living creatures that the author strives to introduce them, rather than as the dry-as-dust species of a natural history catalogue.
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