The lone swallows
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About This Book
Excerpt from The Lone Swallows Most of the papers in this volume are published for the first time. A few have appeared in The Daily Express, The London Evening News, The Field, The Saturday Review, The Outlook, The English Review, and The Wide World Magazine. I am indebted to the Editors of these publications for permission to reprint them; and I am personally grateful to Sir Theodore Cook, of The Field, and to Mn Austin Harrison of The English Review for their encouragement and kindness in criticising and printing my earliest essays. "Winter's Eve," the first attempt to describe the common si...
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- THE LONE SWALLOWS
- COMPILER’S NOTE
- CONTENTS
- THE LONE SWALLOWS
- LADY DAY IN DEVON
- THE INCOMING OF SUMMER
- HAUNT OF THE EVEJAR
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- A DESERTED QUARRY IN FEBRUARY
- VIGNETTES OF NATURE
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- ii
- HAWK NOTES
- PROPHET BIRDS
- A BIRD MYSTIC
- SAMARITANS
- SPORTSMEN OF THE RUBBISH-HEAPS
- RUNAWAYS
- LONDON CHILDREN AND WILD FLOWERS
- MEADOW GRASSES
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- ii
- TIGER’S TEETH
- THE OUTLAW:
- PEREGRINES IN LOVE
- MIDSUMMER NIGHT
- A FEATHERED WASTER
- INVOCATION
- COCKNEY BIRD TRIPPERS
- “FULLNESS AFTER DEARTH”
- CUCKOO NOTES
- DAYS OF AUTUMN
- SWALLOW BROW: A Fantasy
- WINTER’S EVE
- ERNIE
- A SEED IN WASTE PLACES
- THE CHANGE: A Fantasy of Whitefoot Lane
- PROSERPINE’S MESSAGE
- STRIX FLAMMEA
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