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Title: Creatures of the Night
A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain

Author: Alfred W. Rees

Release Date: July 8, 2009 [EBook #29349]

Language: English

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CREATURES OF THE NIGHT

_By the same Author._

IANTO THE FISHERMAN

AND OTHER SKETCHES OF COUNTRY LIFE.

_Illustrated with Photogravures. Large Crown 8vo._

_The Times._--"The quality which perhaps most gives its individuality to
the book is distinctive of Celtic genius.... The characters ... are
touched with a reality that implies genuine literary skill."

_The Standard._--"Mr Rees has taken a place which is all his own in the
great succession of writers who have made Nature their theme."

_The Guardian._--"We can remember nothing in recent books on natural
history which can compare with the first part of this book ...
surprising insight into the life of field, and moor, and river."

_The Outlook._--"This book--we speak in deliberate superlative--is the
best essay in what may be called natural history biography that we have
ever read."

LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET

[Illustration: "THE BROAD RIVER, IN WHICH SHE HAD SPENT HER EARLY LIFE."
(_See_ p. 50.) _Frontispiece._]

[Illustration: Decoration]

CREATURES OF THE NIGHT

A BOOK OF WILD LIFE IN
WESTERN BRITAIN

BY ALFRED W. REES

AUTHOR OF
"IANTO THE FISHERMAN"

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1905

TO

MYFANWY AND MORGAN

"All life is seed, dropped in Time's yawning furrow,
Which, with slow sprout and shoot,
In the revolving world's unfathomed morrow,
Will blossom and bear fruit."

MATHILDE BLIND.

PREFACE.

The Editors of _The Standard_