The rustling of leaves under the feet in woods & under hedges The crumping of cat-ice & snow down wood rides narrow lanes & every street causeways Rustling through a wood or rather rushing while the wind hallows in the oak tops like thunder The rustles of birds wings startled from their nests or flying unseen into the bushes The whizzing of larger birds over head in a wood such as crows puddocks buzzards &c The trample of roburst wood larks on the brown leaves & the patter of Squirrels on the green moss The fall of an acorn on the ground the pattering of nuts on the hazel branches ere they fall from ripeness The flirt of the ground-larks wing from the stubbles how sweet such pictures on dewy mornings when the dew flashes from its brown feathers
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