PLEASANT SOUNDS
The rustling of leaves
The rustling of leaves under the feet in woods and under
hedges. The crumping of cat-ice and snow down wood rides,
narrow lanes and every street causeways. Rustling through a
wood, or rather rushing while the wind hallows in the oak
tops like thunder. The rustles of birds wings startled from
their nests, or flying unseen into the bushes.
The whizzing of larger birds over head in a wood, such as
crows, puddocks, buzzards &c.
The trample of roburst wood larks on the brown leaves,
and the patter of Squirrels on the green moss. The fall of
an acorn on the ground, the pattering of nuts on the hazel
branches, ere they fall from ripeness. The flirt of the ground-larks
wing from the stubbles, how sweet such pictures on
dewy mornings when the dew flashes from its brown feathers.
