WINTERBOURNE BISHOP
A favourite village—Isolated situation—Appearance of the village—Hedge-fruit—The winterbourne—Human interest—The home feeling—Man in harmony with nature—Human…
VALE OF THE WYLYE
Warminster—Vale of the Wylye—Counting the villages—A lost church—Character of the villages—Tytherington church—Story of the dog—Lord…
THE SHEPHERD AS NATURALIST
General remarks—Great Ridge Wood—Encounter with a roe-deer—A hare on a stump—A gamekeeper’s memory—Talk with a…
THE SHEPHERD AND THE BIBLE
Dan’l Burdon, the treasure-seeker—The shepherd’s feeling for the Bible—Effect of the pastoral life—The shepherd’s story…
THE SHEPHERD’S RETURN
Yarnborough Castle sheep-fair—Caleb leaves Doveton and goes into Dorset—A land of strange happenings—He is home-sick…
THE MASTER OF THE VILLAGE
Moral effect of the great man—An orphaned village—The masters of the village.—Elijah Raven—Strange appearance and…
THE ELLERBYS OF DOVETON
The Bawcombes at Doveton Farm—Caleb finds favour with his master—Mrs. Ellerby and the shepherd’s wife—The…
THE DEER-STEALERS
Deer-stealing on Salisbury Plain—The head-keeper Harbutt—Strange story of a baby—Found as a surname—John Barter the…
THE DARK PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE
How the materials for this book were obtained—The hedgehog-hunter—A gipsy taste—History of a dark-skinned family—Hedgehog…
STARLINGS AND SHEEP-BELLS
Starlings’ singing—Native and borrowed sounds—Imitations of sheep-bells—The shepherd on sheep-bells—The bells for pleasure, not use—A…