pointed them out tome The 
trees where the birds nest and 
the birds that nest there. the 
shadows where the herds lie 
and the herds panting in the 
shadows with luminant eyes, 
buds that swell toward blossom- 
ing and blossoms in haste 
toward fruitage, white sea gull 
and robin redbreast with his 
song like the gurgle of laughter 
in a baby’s throat, high sea 
clifts leaning seaward and sea 
marshes through which the salt 
tides flood their crystal rivers, 
fern and oak and sweet sur- 
prise of mosses, rivulet and 
broad river, plunge of waterfall 
and placid stream where the 
A ROBIN REDBREAST IN HIS FAVORITE HAUNT—AN APPLE-TREE 
