"We know of no work which will make a more acceptable
present than this extremely handsome and really useful
book."--_Era._
"As a present for boys, nothing can be better."--_Daily
News._
"The anecdotes are told with a clearness and simplicity that
cannot fail to give pleasure."--_Spectator._
GROOMBRIDGE & SONS, 5, Paternoster Row, London.
* * * * *
Transcriber's Notes:
Some illustrations were repositioned to avoid breaking up sentences.
Original spelling and punctuation were retained from the printed
book, including spelling inconsistencies (i.e.: kestrel and kestril)
except for the following changes:
Page 1: where-ever changed to wherever for consistency. (to admire
wherever we stroll)
Page 10: ear-bones changed to earbones for consistency.
(a mole's earbones)
Page 15: fore-arms changed to forearms for consistency. (his forearms
are something)
Page 30: added closing quotes. (Try, try, try again.")
Page 78: water crow-foot changed to water-crowfoot for consistency.
(spawning amongst that water-crowfoot,)
Page 107: added quotes to continuation of quote. (says, "taken near
Norwich)
Page 110: Ply changed to Fly. (Fly thee home, lady-bird, ere it be
gone.)
Page 118: bind-weed changed to bindweed for consistency. (the greater
bindweed, with its large)
Page 125: added quotes to show second paragraph continues quote. ("She
indicates her desire to sit)
Page 146: in the Fungi illustration, the backwards 3 has been righted.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Country Walks of a Naturalist with His
Children, by W. Houghton
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COUNTRY WALKS ***
***** This file should be named 23941.txt or 23941.zip *****
This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/9/4/23941/
Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Diane Monico, and
the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
http://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of
public domain works in the International Children's Digital
Library.)
Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without payin
|