A Summer Morning. 125

This picture is intended to represent a fresh
early morning in summer; every creature is
waking up, you see, and preparing for the work
of the day. The labourers are going off to their
work in the fields ; while that pretty bird, there
in the foreground of the picture, has just come
out of his nest, and is saying good-bye to his

   

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little wife, who remains to sit upon the eggs. He
is telling her that he shall soon be home again,
and that he hopes to bring back a nice fat worm
this dewy morning. There is a lark, too, who
is rising up into the sky to sing his merry song,
and welcome the morning sun. The steeple of
the village church in the distance stamps the
scene as one of English country life.