What am I about all this while?
Well--I wake every morning at four--can't help it--to see the morning
light--Perhaps I go to sleep again--but never for long--then I do
really very good work in the mornings--but by the afternoon I'm quite
beaten and can do nothing but lie about in the wood.
However--the Prosody and Serpent lectures are just finishing off and
then I shall come to see you in the morning! while I am awake.
I went out before breakfast this morning, half asleep--and saw what I
thought was a red breasted woodpecker as big as a pigeon! Presently it
came down on the lawn and I made up my mind it was only a robin about
the size of a small partridge!
Can it have been a cross-bill?
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