of the most popular of Christmas books."--_Standard._
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"The anecdotes are told with a clearness and simplicity that
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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.