CHAPTER XI 



THE BIRDS OF COWSLIP CORNER 



always called it Cowslip Corner, 

 because when the birds had their 

 nests in the little bushes there, the 

 beautiful yellow flowers covered the 

 ground. We never found such large 

 cowslips elsewhere ; they were the finest 

 of all the countryside, and if you picked 

 a large bunch from that small corner, 

 there seemed to be just as many left. It 

 was just a corner of a coppice, and in 

 the months of April, May, and June was 

 filled with song. Hardly a minute passed 

 throughout all those days without bird 

 music being heard there ; and the night, 

 too, had its notes, for Sedge-Warblers, 



