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CHAPTER XIX
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A pleasant Day with an unpleasant Termination
The birds, who, happily for their own peace of mind and personal comfort, were in blissful ignorance of the preparations which had been making to astonish them, on the first of September, hailed it, no doubt, as one of the pleasantest mornings they had seen that season. Many a young partridge who strutted1 complacently2 among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry3 of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity4 out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom5, basked6 in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome7 feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth. But we grow affecting: let us proceed.
In plain commonplace matter-of-fact, then, it was a fine morning — so fine that you would scarcely have believed that the few months of an English summer had yet flown by. Hedges, fields, and trees, hill and moorland, presented to the eye their ever-varying shades of deep rich green; scarce a leaf had fallen, scarce a sprinkle of yellow mingled8 with the hues9 of summer, warned you that autumn had begun. The sky was cloudless; the sun shone out bright and warm; the songs of birds, the hum of myriads10 of summer insects, filled the air; and the cottage gardens, crowded with flowers of every rich and beautiful tint11, sparkled, in the heavy dew, like beds of glittering jewels. Everything bore the stamp of summer, and none of its beautiful colour had yet faded from the die.
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