io8 In Touch with Nature. 



leathern wings. There was no quarrelling. It 

 was a thoroughly weird, unearthly, and disturbing 

 sight, that gave a sombre tint to the remaining 

 hours of the day ; that reversed the happy order 

 that gives a silver lining to a leaden cloud, and 

 unto this day I never see a bat but I recall that 

 host of fluttering imps that, by their mysterious 

 antics, closed in sadness a merry May- day out of 

 town. 



