SOME BIRDS OF THE WATERFALLS 



THE WATER-OUZEL 



THERE is, and has always been, something fascinating 

 about running water. Savage tribes name their 

 children after it, and their songs and legends are full 

 of allusions to it. And not only is this so with 

 primitive people, but enlightened ones. Even now 

 men direct their roads by the waterways, and for 

 reasons far other than those of trade and commerce. 

 No one knew better than Charles Kingsley what 

 charms there are about brightly-running streams, 

 and none enjoyed them more than he. He knew 

 and said that he saw a hundred sights and heard a 

 hundred sounds that were hidden from the traveller 

 on the dusty highway. The pedestrian of the road 

 sees only the outside of the land sees only its 

 commonplace sights; but the haunter of the water- 

 side is brought face to face with Nature's secrets 

 the flowers, and birds, and insect life of the rich 

 river bank. Here man never interferes, here every- 

 thing is wild-wood and water where everything 



flourishes and the drought never comes. Then 



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