124 ADVENTURES AMONG BIRDS 



of the bilberry bushes, growing everywhere in dense 

 patches among the heather. They had now put on 

 their first leaves and they were like the young leaves 

 of the oak in spring 



Against the sun shene 

 Some very red and some a glad light grene. 



And this wild place was a habitation of birds, and 

 these were the people I had come to see and listen to, 

 who were, indeed, more to me than the human in- 

 habitants. 



