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a pair of larks on every twenty yards square 

 where the dog- ran. 



During this walk, whilst the before-men- 

 tioned shower was going on, we sheltered by 

 a wall with overhanging ivy on it, just oppo- 

 site a rookery ; the wind was blowing fiercely 



A Rookery in a Gale. 



and the nests on the tops of the elms 

 swayed about in a way which suggested sea- 

 sickness, or that the eggs might roll out or 

 get addled. Beside each nest its two pro- 

 prietors were perched, all of them head to 



