The air stirred strongly, and away in an unseen field a reaper clacked and rattled through ripening wheat while the driver whistled.

An uneasy mare whickered to her colt, the colt answered, and the light began to decline.

Miles away a rooster crowed for twilight, and dusk was coming down.

Then a catbird and a brown thrush sang against a grosbeak and a hermit thrush.

The air was tremulous with heavenly notes, the lights went out in the hall, dusk swept across the stage, a cricket sang and a katydid answered, and a wood pewee wrung the heart with its lonesome cry.