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Nature Near London

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Title: Nature Near London

Author: Richard Jefferies

Release Date: June 19, 2006 [EBook #18629]

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NATURE NEAR LONDON

BY

RICHARD JEFFERIES


AUTHOR OF
"THE LIFE OF THE FIELDS," "THE OPEN AIR," ETC.


[Illustration]


FINE-PAPER EDITION



LONDON

CHATTO & WINDUS
1905




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At the Ballantyne Press





PREFACE


It is usually supposed to be necessary to go far into the country to
find wild birds and animals in sufficient numbers to be pleasantly
studied. Such was certainly my own impression till circumstances led me,
for the convenience of access to London, to reside for awhile about
twelve miles from town. There my preconceived views on the subject were
quite overthrown by the presence of as much bird-life as I had been
accustomed to in distant fields and woods.

First, as the spring began, came crowds of chiffchaffs and willow-wrens,
filling the furze with ceaseless flutterings. Presently a nightingale
sang in a hawthorn bush only just on the other side of the road. One
morning, on looking out of window, there was a hen pheasant in the furze
almost underneath. Rabbits often came

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