CHAPTER VI. 



BIRDS OF BROADLAND AND STREAMSIDE. 



A TYPICAL BROADSMAN. 



apart from the 

 attractions of great 

 avian wealth, East Anglia is 

 one of the most charming 

 places on the face of God's 

 fair earth. To the toil-worn 

 man or woman in search of 

 such excellent restoratives 

 as peace and sweetness I 

 would unhesitatingly say, 

 " Go to the Norfolk Broads, 

 for there you will find the loveliest pages of 

 the great book of Nature lying wide open to be 

 gazed upon with never-ending wonder and delight." 

 I have slept on them when bleak November 

 blasts have flecked their dark bosoms from end 

 to end with zebra-Hke stripes of foam, and there 

 has not been a sound except the low cadent 

 rustle of a million reeds swayed violently to and 

 fro by the mad fury of the storm ; also in June, 

 when the mists of morning have lifted like an 

 elfin curtain and the rising sun has flooded every- 



