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after week three bullocks a ^veek," which is, to uiy 

 mind, a better rendering of it than even the well- 

 known " Little bit of bread and no cheese " is of the 

 Yellow Hammer's sono-. 



When I was quite a tiny toddler a Common 

 Snipe gave me a great fright. I had been taken 



for a walk up the 

 hills one evening- in 

 May by some older 

 |r^^ /^ boys, and darkness 



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WKTTING ITS whistle" AFTER A SONG (/>. 181). 



fell upon the land before we reached home again. As 

 we passed a small, rush-clad swamp by the roadside 

 there arose the most weird drumming sound, followed 

 at intervals by a sharp ojich, ajivk, ajick kind of 

 note, I had ever heard. Sometimes it appeared to be 

 to right and sometimes to left of us, but mostly 

 overhead, and my companions, noticing how closely 



