MOONLIGHT AND DAYBREAK 227 



After the wanderer has been out all night, 

 and is fairly tired at last by the rough country, 

 a balmy dawn revives him with a soft south 

 wind, which comes direct from off the sea, 

 passing through the hollows of the hills over 

 the wooded weald, and from thence through 

 and over a land of pines and of heather. 

 Rising from my couch of moss and heath, I 

 make for the highest point of the moor facing 

 south, and there do I stand for a full hour, 

 glad to be alive, and feeling fit for any num- 

 ber of miles. 



Any lonely foreshore, where no houses are 

 near, is a good place in which to study wild 

 life ; especially if down-lands run through parts 

 of the coast-line, as covert, short and stunted 

 certainly, but still good covert of its kind, runs 

 for miles close to the edge of the tide, and 

 fur and feather make use of it. Reach your 

 place of observation over the turf from inland, 

 and "crope up" in the covert; if you prance 

 gaily along the shingle, as certain blunderers 

 do, all the creatures will leave the beach. 

 Some folks say they " never see things like 

 other people," but the fault is their own ; they 

 do not know how to look for them. 



The wild rabbit, the " grey drummer " of 



