CHAPTER ONE
A NORFOLK VILLAGE

A village 'do' - The Postman's ghost - The Devil in the parish - Very young farmers - Early automation -The village carrier - The mole catcher - A true countryman - A white witch - A village dies.

CHAPTER TWO
IONA

A bad 'un - The Arm of the Law - Country callousness - Knights - Old remedies - Cows - Clash with the Black Witch - Pigs - Horses - Ploughing - The mare who forgot.

CHAPTER THREE
TALES OF LONG AGO

The smell of leather - A place for a talk - Pamela's donkey - A bicycle on the stairs - Lake's race memory -Impressions of history - Some old relics.

CHAPTER FOUR
THE FERRET AND THE FOXHOUND

The art of ferreting - Billy Baker's fire - A ferret of our own - The local meet - A foxhound in wartime - Fox and hounds - Some black spots in hunting.

CHAPTER FIVE
BILLY DUNN

Country Roads - Old Howe the road man - Young Roppy Howe - A game with a girl - The p'liceman that never was - Billy Dunn's extraordinary career.

CHAPTER SIX
GAMES AND DIVERSIONS

The home meadow - Kites - Honey - The old lady at the window - The church pit - Showers of frogs -The place no one would talk about - Ted Latterly.

CHAPTER SEVEN
A DAY'S FISHING

The trout stream - Water birds - The one that got away - Late home.

CHAPTER EIGHT
THE KITCHEN GARDEN

Catching Aunt Kate - Frog races - a hotbed - Our hero from the gold fields.

CHAPTER NINE
COCKLES CHOCOLATES AND GHOSTS

Old Earle - The village shops - Strange delicacies -More hauntings.

CHAPTER TEN
SUNDRY AND MANIFOLD CHANGES

The 'Camping Land' - The ancient game of 'camping' -Comon land and enclosures - Family roots - Harvest supper and old songs - The parish church - Bert Goodman, bell-ringer and demon cricketer - Songs of death and glory - The men who went away - How Colkirk changed.

CHAPTER ELEVEN
BARLEY

Harvest - A sample for the maltster - Scything barley - The Lord of the Harvest - 'Whittles' and 'harvest cake' - Work for boys - Bargaining for wages - Introduction of the 'self binder' -Bargaining for prices - a Shady deal.

CHAPTER TWELVE
BROTCHES FRAILS AND GRABBLES

The art of thatching - Wintering stacks against the north east winds - 'Dollies' - Housing cattle with thatch and furze.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
THRESHING

The arrival of the threshing tackle - The 'god' of the machine and the 'Lord' of the hired men - The mechanics of threshing - Threshing with flails - Taking barley to the maltings - Corn thieves.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
ANCIENT CUSTOMS AND PLEASANT PASTIMES

Children: the preservers of tradition - Straw posies at harvest time - Parcels and lanterns on St Valentine's Day - Watching your step on All Fools Day -Spells and lovers on St Mark's Day - The doll Queen on May Day - Norfolk speech - Children at play.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN
COLKIRK CRAFTSMEN

Village craftsmen - George Nelson, the carpenter -Arthur Goodman, bricklayer and Parish Clerk - Tolling the church bell for a death - Frank Wright, the blacksmith - How the countryside lost its soul.