They say a bird makes its nest round like a cup with pressing its breast on it.

Then how did it make the ceiling round, I wonder ?" The nest seemed to start into life for the two women.

After that, Miriam came to see it every day.

It seemed so close to her.

Again, going down the hedgeside with the girl, he noticed the celandines, scalloped splashes of gold, on the side of the ditch.
"I like them," he said, "when their petals go flat back with the sunshine.