. The fall of the year. Natural history. THINGS TO HEAR THIS FALL 91 " Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rahbit's ; And they should rustle to your tread as well. Scuff along in them where they lie in deep windrows by the side of the road; and hear them also, as the wind gathers them into a whirling flurry and sends them rattling over the fields. VI You ought to hear the cry of the blue jay and the caw of the crow in the autumn woods. " The robin and the wren are flown, but from the shrub the jay, An
. The fall of the year. Natural history. THINGS TO HEAR THIS FALL 91 " Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rahbit's ; And they should rustle to your tread as well. Scuff along in them where they lie in deep windrows by the side of the road; and hear them also, as the wind gathers them into a whirling flurry and sends them rattling over the fields. VI You ought to hear the cry of the blue jay and the caw of the crow in the autumn woods. " The robin and the wren are flown, but from the shrub the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy ; Everybody knows those lines of Bryant, because everybody has heard that loud scream of the jay in the lonesome woods, and the caw, caw, caio of the sentinel crow from the top of some tall tree. The robins may not be all gone, for I heard and saw a flock of them this year in January; but they are silent now, and so many of the birds have gone, and the woods have become so empty, that the cries of the jay and the crow seem, on a gloomy day, to be the only sounds in all the hollow woods. There could hardly be an autumn for me if I did not hear these two voices speaking—the one with a kind of warn- ing in its shrill, half-plaintive cry; the other with a. 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 Sharp, Dallas Lore, 1870-. Boston, New York [etc. ] Houghton Mifflin Company
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