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HAMPSHIRE DAYS 



giving him an incipient air of blackbird jauntiness; his 

 plumage not brown, indeed, as we describe it, but rich 

 chestnut black, like the chestnut-black hair of a beauti- 

 ful Hampshire girl of that precious type with oval face 



YOUNG THRUSH 



and pale dark skin. A pretty creature, rich in colour, 

 with a musical, pathetic voice, waiting so patiently to be 

 visited and fed, and a weasel perhaps watching him 

 from the roadside grass with hungry, bright little eyes ! 



