They turn their heads to the south-west, and
hover like hawks, but without any visible movement of their wings. They
are followed by two more, who also poise themselves in the same way.
Presently all four mount higher, and again face the tempest. They do
not appear to defy it, nor even to exert themselves in resisting it.
What to us below is fierce opposition is to them a support and delight.
How these wonderful birds are able to accomplish this feat no
mathematician can tell us. After remaining stationary a few minutes,
they wheel round, once more ascend, and then without any effort go off
to sea directly in the teeth of the hurricane.
NOVEMBER
A November day at the end of the month--the country is left to those who
live in it. The scattered visitors who took lodgings in the summer in
the villages have all departed, and the recollection that they have been
here makes the solitude more complete. The woods in which they wandered
are impassable, for the rain has been heavy, and the dry, baked clay of
August has been turned into a slough a foot deep.
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