THE HERON 
Hogan that " even the Corr iascs* would 
have the ugly face eaten off that feller for 
cuttin' down the old place, more power to 
them." 
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Long after dusk, Andy heard the herons 
calling up the glen. Later, he left his 
fireside and went out. That night, for 
the first time for many 
a year, the stars' reflec- 
tions glimmered in the 
Quarry Pool, and he sat 
down on the trunk of the 
herons' tree to watch 
them. Then he found 
that he was not alone. A 
grey blur on the bank 
took shape in the gloom, 
stilt-legged and melan- 
choly. It flounced away 
when Andy moved, but 
this was the little heron's 
first day out of the nest, 
and earth and water were 
alike new to him. There- 
fore he flapped into the 
angle of a rock, and tried impotentty to flutter 
his way through it. When Andy's coat fell over 
* Corr iasc = heron. 
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