. Hours in my garden, and other nature-sketches. With 138 illus. Natural history. 126 . Up in the Morning As we pass on we meet a shepherd driving his charges out thus early to pas- ture, whist- ling as he goes, his face shining from hardly yet effaced ablutions; and, turning round, we pass on to a marshy flat, very deserted, the resort of many ducks, the sound of our steps setting the inhabi- tants to flight, with a peculiar cry and clangour as they dash forth from their fav- ourite resting-places. As we pass on we skirt the edge of a slope of waste land running down towards the sea;
. Hours in my garden, and other nature-sketches. With 138 illus. Natural history. 126 . Up in the Morning As we pass on we meet a shepherd driving his charges out thus early to pas- ture, whist- ling as he goes, his face shining from hardly yet effaced ablutions; and, turning round, we pass on to a marshy flat, very deserted, the resort of many ducks, the sound of our steps setting the inhabi- tants to flight, with a peculiar cry and clangour as they dash forth from their fav- ourite resting-places. As we pass on we skirt the edge of a slope of waste land running down towards the sea; and coming to us across it are the plaintive cries — pees-weet, pees-weet—of lap- wings. As we ad- vance, we see them mallard in flight. circling round certain points as they monotonously repeat their Touching cry. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay), 1839-1905. New York, Macmillan & Co.
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