. The dune country . white mist gather in the hollowsduring the still, cool hours of the night, and beginto move like curling smoke wreaths with the firstfaint breaths of dawn. The early hours of themorning are full of strange enchantment, anddawn on the dunes brings many wonders. Whenthe first gray tones of light appear, the night-prowlers seek seclusion, and the stillness is brokenby the crows. A single note is heard from amongthe boughs of a far-off pine, and in a few momentsthe air is filled with the noisy conversation of theseinteresting birds—mingled with the cries of thegulls and terns,
. The dune country . white mist gather in the hollowsduring the still, cool hours of the night, and beginto move like curling smoke wreaths with the firstfaint breaths of dawn. The early hours of themorning are full of strange enchantment, anddawn on the dunes brings many wonders. Whenthe first gray tones of light appear, the night-prowlers seek seclusion, and the stillness is brokenby the crows. A single note is heard from amongthe boughs of a far-off pine, and in a few momentsthe air is filled with the noisy conversation of theseinteresting birds—mingled with the cries of thegulls and terns, which have come in from the lakeand are searching for the refuse of the nightwaves. The beams of a great light burst throughthe trees—the leaves and the sands are touchedwith gold—and the awakening of the hills hascome. The twilights bring forth manifold beautieswhich the bright glare of the day has kept withintheir hiding-places. The rich purples that havebeen concealed among secret recesses creep out on [24]. {From the AiilhorsEiihinn) DAWN IN THE KILLS THE DUNE COUNTRY the open spaces to meet the silvery light of therising moon, and the colors of the dusk come toweave a web of phantasy over the is then that the movement of nocturnal life
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