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shade. Man himself, as if baffled in all devices to escape 

 tlie exhausting glare, suspends his toil ; and the traveller 

 abroad since dawn reposes till the mid-day heat has passed. 

 The cattle pant in then- stifling sheds, and the dogs lie 

 prone upon the ground, their legs extended far in front 

 and behind, as if to brmg the utmost portion of their body 

 into contact with the cool earth. 



As day dechnes natm^e recovers from her languor and 

 exhaustion, the insects again flutter across the open 

 glades, the bhds ventm^e once more upon the wing, 

 and the larger animals saunter from under cover, and 

 move away in the direction of the ponds and pasture. 

 The traveller recommences his suspended journey, and 

 the husbandman, impatient to employ the last hom's of 

 fading night, hastens to resume the interrupted labours 

 of the morning. The bfrds which had made distant 

 excursions to their feeding;-o;rouuds are now seen return- 

 iug to their homes ; the crows assemble round some 

 pond to dabble in the water, and readjust their plumes 

 before rething for the night ; the parroquets settle with 

 deafening uproar on the crowns of the palm-trees near 

 thefr nests ; and the pehcaus and sea-bfrds, with weary 

 "sving, retrace then* way to their breeding-place near 

 some sohtary watercourse or ruined tank. The sun at 

 last 



" Sinks, as a flaming-o 

 Drops into her nest at uiglitfoU ; " 



twihght succeeds, and the crepuscular buxls and ani- 

 mals awaken from their mid-day torpor and prepare 

 to enjoy their nightly revels. The hawk-moths now 

 take the place of the gaj^er butterflies, which with- 

 draw with tlie departm-e of Hght ; innumerable beetles 

 make short and uncertain flights in the deepening 

 shade, and in pursuit of them and the otlier insects 

 that frequent the dusk, the night-jar \ with expanded 



^ C(ipri))uthiiis Aifinticus, 



