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Wherefore, though the dusk had made the dull day only a little more dark as yet, and the pink, luminous frost-haze still hung in the west, he called down his hole to his wife his one and only wife, but that was not his fault and quitted. Ten minutes later you behold our black rat if you had eyes quick enough, but it was a matter of momentary glimpses, anyway trekking up a ditch.
But a gun went "boomp!" with that thick, damp sort of sound that smacks of black powder, somewhere down on earth, and a huge "herd" of green plover, alias peewits, which are lapwings, rose, as if blown up by an explosion, to meet them, their thousand wings flickering in the frost-haze like a shower of confetti, and the owl was so disconcerted by the disturbance that he dropped back into the night whence he came, as one who falls into a sea.
A ray of sunlight touched his wet pillow, awoke him. He rushed to the window, flung the latticed shutters apart, and looked out. Something beautiful and ghostly filled all the vistas, frost-haze; and in some queer way the mist had momentarily caught and held the very color of the sky. An azure fog!
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