JUNE:

A BOOK FOR THE COUNTRY

IN SUMMER TIME. BIBLIO

BY

H. T. STAINTON.

"If the whole of human life were like a fine English day in June,
we should cease to wish for another and a better world.'"

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN & LONGMANS.

MDCCCLVI.

270. C. 332.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY C. ROWORTH AND SONS,

BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR.

PREFACE.

"No great object," said Lord Cranworth, on introducing his Plan for a Consolidation of the Statutes to the consideration of the House of Lords, "was ever accomplished without some enthusiasm." Perhaps enthusiasm may not be altogether useless in effecting a little object.

The object of the following pages is to show how much the pleasures of country life may be increased by some acquaintance with the various forms of animal and vegetable life with which we are surrounded. Whether this be a great or a little object is a point which will probably always remain in dis