. Wanderings of a naturalist . ly two drakes would have sometrifling difference of opinion, and would grip each other bythe nape of the neck, being urged on by their respectivewives, who seemed to enter thoroughly into the sport of thething. On the nearer island there sat and dozed manycormorants, immature, and so free as yet from the anxietiesof approaching family cares. By midday the wind dropped to the lightest of breezes;the sky remained clear, and in the strong sunlight manyinsects made their appearance, so that a swallow crossing theisland on its northward flight found food in plenty awa
. Wanderings of a naturalist . ly two drakes would have sometrifling difference of opinion, and would grip each other bythe nape of the neck, being urged on by their respectivewives, who seemed to enter thoroughly into the sport of thething. On the nearer island there sat and dozed manycormorants, immature, and so free as yet from the anxietiesof approaching family cares. By midday the wind dropped to the lightest of breezes;the sky remained clear, and in the strong sunlight manyinsects made their appearance, so that a swallow crossing theisland on its northward flight found food in plenty awaitinghim. Sandwich terns passed along the coast in twos andthrees and in little bunches, plunging into the surf from timeto time as their keen eyes spied some surface-feeding the air was the breath of spring and of summer soon tofollow, and all the island seemed to revel in the quietness andsunlight after its long months of winter storms and bitingwinds straight from the bleak and sunless waters of the dourNorth Sea. 24. QZ3O PS o o z Pm (I)s H H<1 CO Z hb CLc
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