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kingfisher, that like a gleam of light sails down the 

 winding shore. 



Now, at length, right before us, in a great chestnut 

 that towers above the lesser crowd of trees, is an outpost 



of the heronry a 

 huge nest of sticks, 

 a platform perhaps 

 six feet across, and on it stands erect a great bird whose 

 long legs seem out of keeping altogether with the branches 

 of a tree. 



Now more nests, four and five together in a single 



