218 A GARDEN DIARY 



that I pretend for a moment to have been one 

 whit wiser, or less lugubrious myself! Far from 

 it. We have all been a flight of ravens and 

 screech-owls together, only that some of us 

 have screeched and flapped our wings a little 

 more energetically, and in rather a more public 

 fashion than the rest ! 



