“Shepherd’s neglect,” 48.

Signhurst, derivation, 67.

Skylark, 263.

Sladden, Mr. Julius, 89, 121.

Snake and Toad, 282.

Snewin, carpenter, 42.

Squirrels, 281.

Stag-beetles, 277.

Steam power, 83.

Stockmen often resemble their animals, 162.

Stupid places, 292.

“Summer dance,” 251.

“Summer-time,” 230, 231.

Sunday work, 244.

Superstition, 18, 21, 46, 47, 67.

Tacitus, 297.

“Tantiddy’s fire,” 33.

Taylor, Chevalier, 52.

Telegraph wires in frost, 183.

Tennyson quoted,
  on apples, 167;
  business men, 141;
  changes of earth’s surface, 239;
  dairy, 153;
  farming walk, 207;
  hazels, 202;
  home-made bread, 211;
  Morte d’Arthur, 1;
  music, 119;
  old oaks, 187;
  onomatopoeic lines, 196;
  our echoes, 288;
  politics, 80;
  royal oak, 195;
  spring-time, 202;
  steam cultivation, 83;
  “summer dance,” 251;
  tea-cup times, 286;
  town and country, 230.

Tennyson at agricultural show, 139.

Temper, effect on animals, 74.

Temple, Sir Richard, 83-86, 88.

Thatching, 148, 149, 200.

Thistles, 260.

Thomson quoted, 36.

Thoreau quoted, 199.

Thrashing, 80, 81, 215.

“Three acres and a cow,” 84.

Tom, 29;
  caution, 33, 34;
  draining, 31;
  harvesting, 32, 33;
  hop-drying, 31;
  mowing, 30;
  musical critic, 33;
  tree-felling, 30.

Tom G., 41;
  accuracy, 42;
  builder, 44;
  carpenter, 41;
  efficiency, 45;
  epigram, 43, 44;
  teetotal, 41.

Trees, paintings of, 192, 193.

Tricker, 50, 51, 52.

Trout, 35, 36, 49.

Truffle-hunter, 144, 145.

Tusser, Thomas, on hop-growing, 220, 221.

Urchins, 264, 282, 291.

Valentine’s Day, St., 160.

Vestry meetings, 99, 100.

Veterinary surgeons, 147, 148.

Vicar (my first)
  as prosecutor, 101;
  former ways of parishioners, 94, 95;
  impressive reader, 98, 99;
  “new farmers,” 13;
  procession with choir, 102;
  restoration of church, 89, 90.

Vicar (my second)
  declines to act on School Board, 109;
  religious instruction, 110;
  scholar, 104.

Vicar (my third),
  innovations, 110;
  relief of Peking, 104;
  religious instruction, 110, 111.

Vicar, a Gloucestershire, 104.

Vicar of Old Basing, 165.

Victory, old battleship, 194.

Villagers, see Labourers, funeral, 15.

Villages, Cotswold and Vale of Evesham, 283.

“Viper,”
  egg-eater, 166;
  rescues children, 21, 22;
  avoids “dipping,” 142.