se--Spring
cleaning--Carrying litter to the "set"--A numerous family--An
eviction--Vulpicide--Important news--Old traditions of sport
revived--A long day's toil--The secret history of a "draw"--An
old burrow 357-373

THE HEDGEHOG.

I.

A VAGABOND HUNTER.

The nest in the "trash"--Quaint wildlings--Neighbours and
enemies--A feast--Spines and talons--The gipsy boy--A vagabond's
sport--The nest in the wild bees' ruined home--Insects killed
by frost--Winter quarters of the lizard and the snail 377-391

II.

AN EXPERIENCE IN SNAKE-KILLING.

An iron winter--March awakening--A coat of autumn leaves--The
Rip Van Winkle of the woods--Sunshine and strength--Faulty
eyesight--The hedgehog and the viper--Worsting an enemy--The
moorhen's nest--Antics of weasels and snakes--The hedgehog's
bleat--Odd and awkward courtship 392-406

NIGHT IN THE WOODS.

I.

HAUNTS OF THE BADGER AND THE FOX.

Wild life at night--Long watching--A "set" with numerous inhabitants--The
vixen and her cubs--Tolerant badgers--Vigilance--A moorland
episode--"Chalking the mark"--Fox-signs--A habit of voles and
rabbits--Patience, in vain--Sulky badgers--The vixen's lair--Foxes
at play 407-426

II.

THE CRAG OF VORTIGERN.

Difficulties of night watching--Powers of observation in wild
creatures--Night wanderers dislike rain--Eager helpers--A tempting
invitation--Cry of young owls--Philip, the silent watcher--The
fern-owl's rattle--The leaping places of the hare--Night gossip--The
meaning of the white and black markings on a badger's head--The
secrets of the cave 427-443

INDEX 445-448

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

From Drawings by

Florence H. Laverock.

"THE BROAD RIVER, IN WHICH SHE HAD SPENT HER
EARLY LIFE." See p. 50 _Frontispiece._

"AN OPPORTUNITY CAME, WHICH, HAD SHE BEEN POISED
IN THE AIR, COULD SCARCELY HAVE BEEN MISSED." _To face p._ 88

"THE BIG TROUT, IN HIS TORPEDO-LIKE RUSH TO CUT OFF
BRIGHTEYE FROM SURE REFUGE." See p. 105 " " 104

"SHE WAS HOLDING ONE OF HER OFFSPRING BY THE NECK,
IN PREPARATION FOR FLIG