. Woodland, field and shore : wild nature depicted with pen and camera . i. S NEST. 12 178 WOODLAND, FIELD, AND SHORE of these Islands. Happily it is now slowly butsurely increasing in those districts where the WildBirds Protection Act is properly enforced. Lastautumn I spent a few days in a remote Dorsetshirevillage, and was delighted to see so many of thesehandsome Finches. Notices setting forth the Actwere posted in prominent parts of the village ; andto judge by the conversation I overheard betweentwo native women villagers, the paper was not putup for decorative purposes, as se
. Woodland, field and shore : wild nature depicted with pen and camera . i. S NEST. 12 178 WOODLAND, FIELD, AND SHORE of these Islands. Happily it is now slowly butsurely increasing in those districts where the WildBirds Protection Act is properly enforced. Lastautumn I spent a few days in a remote Dorsetshirevillage, and was delighted to see so many of thesehandsome Finches. Notices setting forth the Actwere posted in prominent parts of the village ; andto judge by the conversation I overheard betweentwo native women villagers, the paper was not putup for decorative purposes, as seems to be the casein some of our London suburbs. Have you eared abowt old Polly Crane ? Shesa been ad up fer ketchin Goldfinches in er gardin. You doant say so ! Yes, and shes been fined five shillin. xAit this stage the second lady waxed warm inlanguage more energetic than polite on the oppres-siveness of the Law ; and she kept on adding in herexpressive Western patois that a bird was a flyinthing, a flyin abart, and that any one ad a right toketch of um, and the law wa
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