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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Creatures of the Night, by Alfred W. Rees This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Author: Alfred W. Rees Release Date: July 8, 2009 [EBook #29349] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CREATURES OF THE NIGHT *** Produced by David Edwards, Marcia Brooks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) CREATURES OF THE NIGHT _By the same Author._ IANTO THE FISHERMAN AND OTHER SKETCHES OF COUNTRY LIFE. _Illustrated with Photogravures. Large Crown 8vo._ _The Times._--"The quality which perhaps most gives its individuality to the book is distinctive of Celtic genius.... The characters ... are touched with a reality that implies genuine literary skill." _The Standard._--"Mr Rees has taken a place which is all his own in the great succession of writers who have made Nature their theme." _The Guardian._--"We can remember nothing in recent books on natural history which can compare with the first part of this book ... surprising insight into the life of field, and moor, and river." _The Outlook._--"This book--we speak in deliberate superlative--is the best essay in what may be called natural history biography that we have ever read." LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET [Illustration: "THE BROAD RIVER, IN WHICH SHE HAD SPENT HER EARLY LIFE." (_See_ p. 50.) _Frontispiece._] [Illustration: Decoration] CREATURES OF THE NIGHT A BOOK OF WILD LIFE IN WESTERN BRITAIN BY ALFRED W. REES AUTHOR OF "IANTO THE FISHERMAN" WITH ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET 1905 TO MYFANWY AND MORGAN "All life is seed, dropped in Time's yawning furrow, Which, with slow sprout and shoot, In the revolving world's unfathomed morrow, Will blossom and bear fruit." MATHILDE BLIND. PREFACE. The Editors of _The Standard_
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