. Birds, beasts and fishes of the Norfolk broadland . SUNSET ON SALHOUSE BROAD. They hung the slaughterd fish like swordsOn saplings slender,—like scimitarsBright, and ruddied from now dead wars,Blazd in the light,—the scaly hordes. —T. Crauford, The FISHING ON HOVETON BROAD. CHAPTER I BA TS Two bats are common in the Broad district—the commonbat and the large bat, measuring fourteen inches across thewings. The Common Bat may be seen any day of the year, but he is very uncertain,and his appearance depends much upon the weather. Onmild winter evenings he is sure to appear whenever there
. Birds, beasts and fishes of the Norfolk broadland . SUNSET ON SALHOUSE BROAD. They hung the slaughterd fish like swordsOn saplings slender,—like scimitarsBright, and ruddied from now dead wars,Blazd in the light,—the scaly hordes. —T. Crauford, The FISHING ON HOVETON BROAD. CHAPTER I BA TS Two bats are common in the Broad district—the commonbat and the large bat, measuring fourteen inches across thewings. The Common Bat may be seen any day of the year, but he is very uncertain,and his appearance depends much upon the weather. Onmild winter evenings he is sure to appear whenever thereare any midges flying about, and you see him hawkingthrough them, flying to and fro thousands of times; andyou can hear his jaws snap, the sharp little mole-like teethcoming together with a click. Like the tom-breeze (dragon-fly), he hawks to and fro, devouring thousands of he is never to be seen in coarse weather: he lies upthen in an old woodpeckers hole in a hollow tree, or insome safe retreat. The bats appearance is at all times very uncertain, butjust before dusk is their hour; and if they appear in winter,the Broadsmen say some wild weather is a-coming. The Large Bat, common to the district, I have seldom seen in mild winterseven ;
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