Chapter I: Front Matter

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_INMATES OF MY HOUSE AND GARDEN_

_BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR._

=WILD NATURE WON BY KINDNESS.= Illustrated. School Edition, limp cloth,
1s. 6d. Presentation Edition, imitation leather, in box, 5s.

“A charming collection.... Will be found a pleasant companion to young people in their holiday haunts.”—_Pall Mall Gazette._

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=MORE ABOUT WILD NATURE.= Illustrated. Paper, 1s.; cloth, 2s.

“No better book can be given to juvenile naturalists.”—_Graphic._

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LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, PATERNOSTER SQUARE.

[_Frontispiece._

INMATES OF MY
HOUSE AND GARDEN

BY

MRS. BRIGHTWEN

_Author of “Wild Nature Won by Kindness”_

ILLUSTRATED BY THEO. CARRERAS

London
T. FISHER UNWIN
PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1895

_All rights reserved._

To

MISS ELEANOR ORMEROD

_Consulting Entomologist to the Royal Agricultural Society, and
Fellow of the Meteorological Society._

DEAR MISS ORMEROD,—

For thirty years you have been a pioneer in the fields of agricultural zoology and chemistry, and it may most truly be said that no woman has ever done so much as you have to protect agriculture against its natural enemies. In the special departments to which you have devoted your life, it is universally admitted that you are without a rival.

My little volumes do not compete with work so serious as yours, yet you have gratified me with your commendation of their truthfulness, and you have permitted me the pleasure of dedicating to you this one, in some chapters of which I deal with the classes which are most familiar to yourself.

Believe me to be
Yours very sincerely,
ELIZA BRIGHTWEN.

THE GROVE, GREAT STANMORE.
_June, 1895._