WHERE SWALLOWS ROOST 105 



and September seem little more than a family of 

 birds. They appeared in the distance like a vast 

 swarm of gnats ; it was as though all the Swallows 

 in the marsh had collected in one great storm of 

 birds. The significance of this movement I have 

 never had the fortune to determine, but it seems 

 highly probable that it is connected with the inau- 

 guration of an actual migration toward the birds' 

 winter quarters. 



