Life in a pine wood -- Hints to adder-seekers -- Bats -- Beauty of the fox -- Sentimentalist on foxes -- Discontented squirrel -- My neighbour's bird stories -- Toad as traveller -- Heron : a feathered notable -- Heron as a table-bird -- Mole question -- Cristiano : a horse -- Mary's little lamb -- Serpent's tongue -- Serpent's strangeness -- Bruised serpent -- Serpent in literature -- Wasps -- Beautiful hawk-moths -- Strenuous mole -- Friendly rat -- Little red dog -- Dogs in London -- Great dog-superstition -- My friend the pig -- Potato at home and in England -- John-go-to-bed-at-noon -- Chequered daffodil and the glory of wild flowers -- Concerning lawns, with incidental observations on earthworms.