Collected stories

Sliding: The waxwings

Sliding

Cocksfoot, crested dog's-tail, sweet vernal grass

The Highland boy

The mallard

A big night

A house divided

Three shots for Charlie Betson

Snowdrops

Prey

A moonlight gallop

Away away in China

A Roman spring

Percey Colclough and the religious girls.

The girl from Cardigan: The girl from Cardigan

A flight of geese

Sing it again, Wordsworth

The kingfisher

My uncle's story

Blackberries

The wind, the cold wind

Some opposites of good

In the West Country

A professional man

Shaving

All you who come to Portland Bill

Lurchers

A seeing eye

The Holm oak

Reverse for Dennis

Gamblers

Johnny Trevecca and the devil

A piece of archangel

Keening.

New stories: The Brighton midgets

Fire fire

A sacrifice.