The Gamekeeper At Home: Sketches of Natural History And Rural Life

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The Gamekeeper At Home: Sketches of Natural History And Rural Life
Jefferies Richard
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Sometimes they climb the bushes, running along the upper surface of the boughs that chance to be nearly horizontal.
Once on a hawthorn branch in a hedge I saw a mouse descending with an acorn ; he was, perhaps, five feet from the ground, and how and from whence he had got his burden was rather puzzling at first. Probably the acorn, dropping from the tree„had been caught no THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME and held in the interlacing of the bush till observed by the keen, if tiny, eyes below.
Mice have a
...magical way of getting into strange places. In some farmhouses they still use the ancient, old-fashioned lanterns made of tin — huge machines intended for a tallow candle, and with plates of thin translucent horn instead of glass. They are not wholly despicable ; since if set on the ground and kicked over by a recalcitrant cow in the sheds, the horn does not break as glass would. These lanterns, having a handle at the ,top, are by it hung up to the beam in the kitchen ; and sometimes to the astonish- ment of the servants in the quiet of the evening, they are found to be animated by some motive power, swinging to and fro and partly turning round.

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