VIII 
THE PROCESSION PASSES 
TIME — September 20th. Place— The School at Foxes 
Corners. 
These are the stories that Gray Lady told or read from 
her scrap-book between September and Flag Day. She 
allowed them to be copied at Miss Wilde’s request for the 
pleasure of the other children in the township. 
THE SWALLOWS 
Five Swallows and a Changeling 
I wonder if there is a child living in the real country 
who does not know a Swallow by sight the moment its 
eyes rest upon the bird? I think not, and a great many 
people who are only in the country at midsummer and in 
early autumn also know the Swallows, even though they 
cannot tell the different kinds apart, for during the nesting 
time, as well as the flocking period that follows, Swal- 
lows are conspicuous birds of the air and leaders of the 
birds that might be grouped as ‘‘The Fleetwings.”” For 
not only do Swallows get their food while on the wing, now 
pursuing it through the upper air if the day is fair, now 
sweeping low over meadow, pond, and river if the clouds 
hang heavy and insect life keeps near to the ground, but 
during the flocking season, when the separate families 
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