. Birds and their nests and eggs : found in and near great towns . XXIX : A LIVELY SCRAMBLE FOR THE COVETEDTIT-BIT. which they hold. To-day the cattle—blackand streaked and brown—are standing orresting peacefully beside the ripening hay,tired maybe from feasting plentifully uponthe soft green sward, and waiting till the sun 70 ON THE MOORLANDS is low before they browse their evening the clear sweet water in the pool is thereto slake their thirst. Some swallows flit. XXX: To-day the cattle are standing or RESTING PEACEFULLY—AND THE CLEAR SWEETWATER IN THE POOL IS THERE TO SLAKE THEIRTH
. Birds and their nests and eggs : found in and near great towns . XXIX : A LIVELY SCRAMBLE FOR THE COVETEDTIT-BIT. which they hold. To-day the cattle—blackand streaked and brown—are standing orresting peacefully beside the ripening hay,tired maybe from feasting plentifully uponthe soft green sward, and waiting till the sun 70 ON THE MOORLANDS is low before they browse their evening the clear sweet water in the pool is thereto slake their thirst. Some swallows flit. XXX: To-day the cattle are standing or RESTING PEACEFULLY—AND THE CLEAR SWEETWATER IN THE POOL IS THERE TO SLAKE THEIRTHIRST. across the meandering brook, or mount highup into the air with easy grace, as suits theirfancy free ; others are busy with sweet mor-sels for their young, secure in cosy nests IN THE MONTH OF JUNE 71 beneath the eaves of the old barn upon thehill. And look there !—in his lonely solitudethe long-legged heron stands. It needs goodeyesight to perceive the bird, so still and
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