CHAFFINCH LANE 



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How he does try to scold in a most effective way ! 

 and as I walk 

 away along the 

 lane he follows, 

 and when I am 

 some distance 

 down I still hear 

 his now merry 

 song, always be- 

 ginning with the 

 loud note pink, 

 pink. There al- 

 ways seems to 

 me to be very 

 much of expres- 

 sion and meaning 

 in the chaffinch's 

 call-notes. 



I like to re- 

 cognise this wild, 

 gently sloping 

 hill as Chaffinch 

 Lane. That is not 

 its proper name ; 

 I believe it has 

 had several names 

 successively, all being less worthy of its charms. On 

 a tree at its entrance is a time-worn notice board, 



CHAFFINCH'S NEST 

 DECORATED WITH NEWSPAPER 



