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(woodcocks), an' if iver you see critters move quick, 

 they did fur them clumps when the wind got loose. 

 When I gits my week's paper an' looks it over, I'll 

 warrant as there'll be sum shipwracks." 



" Can you remember," I ask him, "at what time 

 of the year the great gap was made in the woods by 

 the blowing down of the great trees ? " 



" Why, our lot had been a-cuttin' the under stuff 

 an' jist finished the job an' gone home; 'twas this 

 time o' year, an' a gale got loose like this frum the 

 same quarter. In some places it didn't blow off a 

 hurt leaf, 'twas curious ; for in t'others it cleared all 

 afore it. It cleared that 'ere lot o' big trees." 



Insects by their actions tell when a change is 

 coming ; that hum in the air, which you have 

 heard for hours, suddenly ceases ; they have come 

 down to earth again and taken shelter beneath 

 the leaves, the under side of them, to wait for a 

 better time. 



The birds flit in restless fashion from tree to tree, 

 and from one bit of cover to another ; for something 

 tells them that in the coming change they will need 

 more than their ordinary place of shelter for the 

 night. Children who have been busy, as only 



