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Then the crossed shadows of the flags and hemlocks screened him from my sight. The first autumn in the water-vole's life was a season of wonderful beauty.
Once, during the first summer of the water-vole's life, I saw as pretty a bit of wild hunting as I have ever witnessed, and my pleasure was enhanced by the fact that the quarry escaped unharmed. Early in the afternoon, instead of during twilight, I, in company with the members of the village Hunt and their mongrel pack, had searched the stream and its banks for rats, and had enjoyed good sport.
A certain vole, living in the river-bank near the place where the villagers met to hunt, was not easily mistaken for one of his fellows. Whereas the general colour of a water-vole's coat except in the variety known as the black vole is greyish brown, which takes a reddish tinge when the light glances on it between the leaves, his was uniformly of a dark russet.
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