[CHAPTER II.]8

Stuffing the Crossbills.—The proposed Yacht.—An impaled Woodcock.

[CHAPTER III.]13

A Momentous Decision.

[CHAPTER IV.]14

Digging for Pupæ.—Dick Carleton.—Metamorphoses of Butterfly.

[CHAPTER V.]20

Building the Yacht.—The Launch.—Great Crested Grebe's nest.—A floating Coot's nest.—Golden Crested Wrens.—Their Migration.—The Flight of a Heron.

[CHAPTER VI.]31

Mr. Meredith.—"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might."—A Botanical Lecture.—The Goat Moth.—Blowing up a Tree.—An astonished Cow.—Caterpillars in the Wood.