Hedgerow Lite 
abundant store, there are now only a 
few remaining. 
The field-mice, in their ruddy coats, 
have had their share, as we have seen ; 
and the dorimice also, before they put 
themselves to bed for the winter. Now 
the missel-thrush, the blackbird, and 
song-thrush resort to the hedges in 
search of them, especially when the frost 
binds the earth with its icy hands, and 
makes it impossible for them to obtain 
any ground food ; or when the snow falls 
deep and soft, burying the whole face of 
nature in its white mantle. Then, too, 
the wandering fieldfares and the redwings 
flock to the hedges and hedgeside trees 
and bushes after the berries. They are 
foreigners, forced away from their home 
in Scandinavian forests by the harshness 
of the winter, which would deprive them 
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