A Colony of Herons 



canopy of wings — that makes even an admirer 

 feel a bit derisive. But as he showed himself 

 time and again afterward, coursing high and 

 grandly over the lake, the angularity was all 

 subdued to broad and flowing outlines, and he 

 seemed a touch of sailing sky that crowned the 

 picture worthily. 



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