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Updated: May 23, 2025
They flashed up and down the brook like a pair of demented fireworks. The whole bank reeked with the discarded meals of their progeny. By the time the nestlings were fledged, the sallow wore its summer mantle, a down-lined cloak of green. The interesting event had been a diversion. Now there seemed nothing to look forward to.
Alwin pulled a hood over his cap, strapped his cloak still tighter, drew a pair of down-lined mittens from under his girdle and put them on over his gloves, and, without another syllable, turned and made for the gate. It was glorious weather, dry and clear, and so still that very little of the cold penetrated his fur-lined garments. Snow covered everything, fine and firm and dazzling.
Presently they discovered, under a low, scrubby bush, a down-lined nest containing eight greenish-drab eggs. "There's one!" shouted Jimmy. "This is an eider's nest."
By degrees the old ambition stirred, and she began to sketch the slow panorama of July clouds, built of mist and foam into the likeness of domes of burnished copper, and campaniles of silver; the opaque mountain masses, stratified along the horizon, leaden in hue, with sullen bluish gorges where ravening January winds made their lair; the intricate, graceful tracery of gnaried bare boughs and interlacing twigs, that would serve as a framework when May hung up her green portieres to screen the down-lined boudoirs where happy birds nestled; the gray stone arches of the bridge in the valley below, the groups of cattle couched on the rocky hillside, up which the pine forest marched like ranks of giants.
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