ly, 156;
hope and despair, 220;
lady-smocks, 276;
narrow outlook, 19;
"pleaching," 59;
Providence, 1;
sweet of the year, 232.

Shappen, derivation, 129.

Sheep, 47-50, 158-160.

Sheep dipper, 142.

Shelley on skylark, 253.

Shepherds, 46, 50, 76, 77.

"Shepherd's neglect," 48.

Signhurst, derivation, 67.

Skylark, 263.

Sladden, Mr. Julius, 89, 121.

Snake and Toad, 282.

Snewin, carpenter, 42.

Squirrels, 281.

Stag-beetles, 277.

Steam power, 83.

Stockmen often resemble their animals, 162.

Stupid places, 292.

"Summer dance," 251.

"Summer-time," 230, 231.

Sunday work, 244.

Superstition, 18, 21, 46, 47, 67.

Tacitus, 297.

"Tantiddy's fire," 33.

Taylor, Chevalier, 52.

Telegraph wires in frost, 183.

Tennyson quoted,
on apples, 167;
business men, 141;
changes of earth's surface, 239;
dairy, 153;
farming walk, 207;
hazels, 202;
home-made bread, 211;
_Morte d'Arthur_, 1;
music, 119;
old oaks, 187;
onomatopoeic lines, 196;
our echoes, 288;
politics, 80;
royal oak, 195;
spring-time, 202;
steam cultivation, 83;
"summer dance," 251;
tea-cup times, 286;
town and country, 230.

Tennyson at agricultural show, 139.

Temper, effect on animals, 74.

Temple, Sir Richard, 83-86, 88.

Thatching, 148, 149, 200.

Thistles, 260.

Thomson quoted, 36.

Thoreau quoted, 199.

Thrashing, 80, 81, 215.

"Three acres and a cow," 84.

Tom, 29;
caution, 33, 34;
draining, 31;
harvesting, 32, 33;
hop-drying, 31;
mowing, 30;
musical critic, 33;
tree-felling, 30.

Tom G., 41;
accuracy, 42;
builder, 44;
carpenter, 41;
efficiency, 45;
epigram, 43, 44;
teetotal, 41.

Trees, paintings of, 192, 193.

Tricker, 50, 51, 52.

Trout, 35, 36, 49.

Truffle-hunter, 144, 145.

Tusser, Thomas, on hop-growing, 220, 221.

Urchins, 264, 282, 291.

Valentine's Day, St., 160.

Vestry meetings, 99, 100.

Veterinary surgeons, 147, 148.

Vicar (my first)
as prosecutor, 101;
former ways of parishioners, 94, 95;
impressive reader, 98, 99;
"new farmers," 13;
procession with choir, 102;
restoration of church, 89, 90.

Vicar (my second)
declines to act on School Board, 109;
religious instruction, 110;
scholar, 104.

Vicar (my third),
innovations, 110;
relief of Peking, 104;
religious instruction, 110, 111.

Vicar, a Gloucestershire, 104.

Vicar of Old Basing, 165