The rustling of leaves under the feet in woods and under hedges;The crumpling of cat-ice and snow down wood-rides, narrow lanes and every street causeway;Rustling through a wood or rather rushing, while the wind halloos in the oak-toop like thunder;The rustle of birds' wings startled from their nests or flying unseen into the bushes;The whizzing of larger birds overhead in a wood, such as crows, puddocks, buzzards;The trample of robins and woodlarks 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 as they fall from ripeness;The flirt of the groundlark's wing from the stubbles – how sweet such pictures on dewy mornings, when thedew flashes from its brown feathers.
