This is the first chunk of a short series of extracts from an article called "London Birds." It was quite a few pages long, so I've selected bits ... Have a read of this first bit ..... and have a guess at when it was written .... ...... now I've jumped on a bit .... this section is about Jackdaws and Rooks ... ... as before, see if you can figure out when it was written ... ..sorry about the chunk of overlap .... I thought this bit would be interesting .... and it might make you think some more about its date .... ... here's the last extract .... I suspect this will really change your "date of writing" estimate ... swallows and swifts are the targeted birds in this bit ... I wonder if they nest in those same houses ... Here's a beautiful bit of artwork from the same book.... nothing to do with the section you've been reading, obviously ... Well, what do you make of it ? Age-wise. I'll be showing you shortly .... after the music section. Appropriately for us birders, we having Kate Rusby with " As I roved out" which I did this very day .... As I roved out one fine May morning, To view the meadows and flowers gay, Who should I spy, but my own true lover As she sat by yon willow tree. I took off my hat and I did salute her, I did salute her most courageously. As she turned around, the tears fell from her Saying, False young man, you've deluded me. And the diamond ring I behold I gave to you, A diamond ring to wear on your right hand. But the vows you made, love, you went and broke them And you wed the lassie who has the land If I wed the lassie who has the land, my love, It's that I'll rue 'till the day I die. When misfortune falls, sure the man my shun it. It was my fault, that I'll not deny. And at night when I go to my bed of slumber The thoughts of my love are in my mind. As I turn around to embrace my darling, Instead of gold, sure 'tis brass I find. And I wish the queen would bring home her armies From the West Indies, America and Spain. And every man to his wedded woman Oh in hopes that I might be with thee again ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What I want to know is, do folk singers only go roving in May ? And do roundabouts always go clockwise ? We need to know. But now, you need to know what that up there was. Well, here you go ... .... more about that at some future time ..... I'm hoping it was a lot older than you thought.
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