The disappearance of the glories of Autumn, and the advent of Winter--Innovations and Innovators--New Version of the Scriptures--The Milkmaid and her Fairy Lover, translated from the Gaelic, 159 CHAPTER XXVIII. Wild Birds' Nests in early April--Rook stealing Eggs frightened and almost captured--The Domestic Cock--What he was, and what he is--Sadly demoralised by intermixture with "Cochin-Chinas" and "Bramahpootras," 165 CHAPTER XXIX. The Vernal Equinox--Beauty of Loch Leven--Astronomical Notes--How an old Woman supposed to possess the Evil Eye escaped a cruel death, 172 CHAPTER XXX. Midges and other Bloodsuckers--The Tsetse of South Africa--The Abyssinian Zimb--Livingstone--Adders and Grass Snakes--Lucan's Pharsalia--Celsus--Legend of St. John ante Portam Latinam, 178 CHAPTER XXXI. The Leafing of the Oak and Ash--Splendid Stags' Heads--Edmund Waller--Old Silver-Plate buried for preservation in the '45--Mimicry in Birds--An accomplished Goldfinch, 185 CHAPTER XXXII. Potato Culture--Sensibility of the Potato Shaw to Weather changes--The Carline Thistle--Burns--The true Carduus Scotticus--The old Dog-Rhyme, 192 CHAPTER XXXIII. A non-"Laughing" Summer--Rheumatic Pains--Old Gaelic Incantation for Cattle Ailments, 199 CHAPTER XXXIV. Early sowing recommended--Vitality of Superstitions--Capnomancy--Hazel Nuts: Frequent References to in Gaelic Poetry--How best to get at the full flavour of a ripe Hazel Nut, 204 CHAPTER XXXV. Strength of Insects--Necrophorus Vespillo, or Burying-Beetle--Foetid smell of--How Willie Grimmond earned an Honest Penny in Glencoe, 210 CHAPTER XXXVI. Seaweed as a Fertiliser--Homer, Horace, Virgil--November Meteors--Gaelic Folk-Lore--A Curfew Prayer--A Bed Blessing--A Cattle Blessing--Rhyme to be said in driving Cattle to Pasture--"Luath," Cuchullin's Dog--Notes from the Outer Hebrides, 217 CHAPTER XXXVII. The Delights of Beltane Tide--Bishop Gawin Douglas--His Translation of the Æneid--The Fat of Deer--"Light and Shade" from the Gaelic--Mackworth Praed--Discovery of an old Flint Manufactory in the Moss of Ballachulish, 225 CHAPTER XXXVIII.