Again I close my eyes, And the autumn light is streaming From pale blue cloudless skies; Upon the lone hill falling 'Mid the sound of heather-bells, Where the running stream is calling Unto the silent wells.

On a fine sunny daywith butterflies hovering over the heather-flowers, and bees sucking honey from the gorsewith little mild airs playing about, and a torquoise sky shining overheadit might be a spot on which to lie and dream dreams of paradise; but now!

Then he saw a little white down on a heather-knoll, and he understood that the goosey-gander had dropped this by the wayside to let him know in which direction he had been carried; and therefore he continued his search.

"Well, my dear Jimmy," asked the well-preserved, fair-haired woman in short brown skirt and fresh white cotton blouse and sun-hat, "what have you discovered?" "Very little," replied the easy-going man, who wore a suit of rough heather-tweed and a round cloth fishing-hat.

They moved to foreign lands in the winter; in the autumn they travelled from one grain-field to another all over Götaland, and picked grain; during the summer, they spread themselves over the farms in Sonnerbo township, and lived upon eggs and berries and birdlings; but every spring, when nesting time came, they came back to the heather-heath.

And the lighthouse keeper out there on the point; the old fru on the mountain farm, and the mountain peasant and his house-folk go their accustomed ways, and do not run about on the desolate heather-fields.

I never returned without a disordered stomach, and wishing Highland heather-honey at the devil.