67

XV. PLUMS--CHERRIES....................................... 182

XVI. TREES: ELM--OAK--BEECH--WILLOW--SCOTS-FIR............. 187

XVII. CORN--WHEAT--RIDGE AND FURROW--BARLEY--FARMERS
NEWSTYLE AND OLDSTYLE............................... 207

XVIII. HOPS--INSECT ATTACKS--HOP FAIRS....................... 220

XIX. METEOROLOGY--ETON AND HARROW AT LORD'S--"RUS IN
URBE"............................................... 230

XX. CHANGING COURSE OF STREAMS--DEWPONDS--A WET
HARVEST--WEATHER PHENOMENA--WILL-O'-THE-
WISP--VARIOUS....................................... 239

XXI. BIRDS: PEACOCKS--A WHITE PHEASANT--ROOKS' ARITHMETIC.. 253

XXII. PETS: SUSIE--COCKY--TRUMP--CHIPS--WENDY--TAFFY........ 264

XXIII. BUTTERFLIES--MOTHS--WASPS............................. 271

XXIV. CYCLING--PAGEANTS OF THE ROADS--ROADSIDE
CREATURES--HARMONIOUS BUILDING--COLLECTING OLD
FURNITURE AND CHINA................................. 278

XXV. DIALECT--LOCAL PHRASEOLOGY IN SHAKESPEARE--NAMES
--STUPID PLACES..................................... 288

XXVI. Is ALDINGTON THE ROMAN ANTONA?........................ 294

INDEX....................................................... 306

"Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely!
Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds looking on their silly sheep,
Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy
To kings that fear their subjects' treachery!"
_3 King Henry VI_.

"When I paused to lean on my hoe, these sounds and sights
I heard and saw anywhere in the row, a part of the inexhaustible
entertainment which the country offers."
--THOREAU.

"Life is sweet, brother.... There's night and day, brother,
both sweet things; sun, moon and stars, brother, all sweet
things; there's likewise the wind on the heath. Life is very
sweet, brother; who would wish to die?"
--BORROW: _Jasper Petulengro_.

GRAIN AND CHAFF FROM AN ENGLISH MANOR

CHAPTER I.

ALDINGTON VILLAGE--THE MANOR HOUSE--THE FARM.

"There's a divinity that shapes our ends."
--_Hamlet_.

"Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns."