Wild Nature Won By Kindness

Elizabeth Brightwen

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• Publié par: phien
• Publié le: 08 décembre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 23
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Project Gutenberg's Wild Nature Won By Kindness, by Elizabeth Brightwen This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Wild Nature Won By Kindness Author: Elizabeth Brightwen Illustrator: Elizabeth Brightwen Release Date: April 16, 2007 [EBook #21111] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WILD NATURE WON BY KINDNESS *** Produced by Joe Longo and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net W I L D N A T U R E BY THE SAME AUTHOR. More about Wild Nature. With Portrait of the Author and many other full-page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, imitation leather gilt, gilt edges, in box, 5s. Inmates of my House and Garden. With 32 Illustrations by Theo Carreras. Uniform with above, 5s. ALSO Glimpses into Plant Life. Fully Illustrated. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. W W I O BY L N D B N MRS. BRIGHTWEN Vice-President of the Selborne Society AUTHOR OF "INMATES OF MY HOUSE AND GARDEN," ETC. ILLUSTRATED EIGHTH EDITION T . PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1898 F I S H All rights reserved. SIR JAMES PAGET, BART., F.R.S., D.C.L., ETC., ETC. MY DEAR SIR JAMES ,— The little papers which are here reprinted would scarcely have been written but for the encouragement of your sympathy and the stimulus of what you have contributed to the loving study of nature. Shall you, then, think me presumptuous if I venture to dedicate to the friend what I could never dream of presenting to the professor, and if I ask you to pardon the poorness of the gift in consideration of the sincerity with which it is given. Pray believe me to be Yours very sincerely, ELIZA BRIGHTWEN THE GROVE, GREAT STANMORE. June, 1898. p. 5 T A B L E 11 18 21 25 44 51 59 67 70 80 87 99 108 112 121 126 131 136 140 143 146 152 157 163 173 178 183 188 195 202 O F INTRODUCTION. 1. REARING BIRDS FROM THE NEST. 2. DICK THE STARLING. 3. RICHARD THE SECOND. 4. VERDANT. 5. THE WILD DUCKS. 6. THE JAY. 7. A YOUNG CUCKOO. 8. THE TAMING OF OUR PETS. 9. BIRDIE. 10. ZÖE, THE NUTHATCH. 11. TITMICE. 12. BLANCHE, THE PIGEON. 13. GERBILLES. 14. WATER SHREWS. 15. SQUIRRELS. 16. A MOLE. 17. HARVEST MICE. 18. THE CALIFORNIAN MOUSE. 19. SANCHO THE TOAD. 20. ROMAN SNAILS. 21. AN EARWIG MOTHER. 22. THE SACRED BEETLE. 23. SPIDERS. 24. TAME BUTTERFLIES. 25. ANT-LIONS. 26. ROBINS I HAVE KNOWN. 27. ROBERT THE SECOND. 28. FEEDING BIRDS IN SUMMER 29. RAB, MINOR. 30. A VISIT TO JAMRACH. 31. HOW TO OBSERVE NATURE 207 214 p. 7 L I S T O F 5 7 11 18 21 25 43 51 58 59 61 66 67 69 79 87 98 99 101 108 112 125 126 131 140 I L FLYING WILD DUCK SACRED BEETLE SWALLOW REARING BIRDS FROM THE NEST STARLINGS FLYING STARLINGS STARLING IN SEARCH OF FOOD WILD DUCK TINY, SIR FRANCIS DRAKE AND LUTHER JAY ANOTHER JAY A YOUNG CUCKOO. BUTTERFLY AND CATERPILLAR YOUNG CUCKOO ATTACKED BY BIRDS ARABESQUE ZÖE, THE NUTHATCH NUTHATCH IN A COCOANUT TITMICE IN PURSUIT OF BEES TITMICE BLANCHE THE PIGEON GERBILLES WATER SHREW SQUIRREL MOLE MICE ROMAN SNAILS EARWIG EGYPTIAN BEETLES FLYING BEETLE TRAP-DOOR SPIDERS BUTTERFLY ANT-LION THE ROBIN YOUNG BIRDS CHILD AND PET BIRD RAB MINOR RAB MINOR RUNNING NESTLINGS NEST OF WASPS SNAKE IN A CIRCLE 146 156 157 162 163 173 178 183 195 201 202 206 207 214 230