Work there is in plenty now, for stone-picking, hoeing, and other matters must be attended to; but the moucher lounges in the road decoying chaffinches, or perhaps earns a shilling by driving some dealer's cattle home from fair and market.
By April his second great crop is ready--the watercress; the precise time of course varies very much, and at first the quantities are small.
The hedges are now fast putting on the robe of green that gradually hides the wreck of last year's growth.

The withered head of the teazle, black from the rain, falls and disappears.

Great burdock stems lie prostrate.

Thick and hard as they are while the sap is still in them, in winter the wet ground rots the lower part till the blast overthrows the stalk.

The hollow 'gicks' too, that lately stood almost to the shoulder, is down, or slanting, temporarily supported by some branch.