BIRDS IN SPRING
... . The young man's fancy is not the only emotion that is stirred by spring, for this is the season when birds fly and flirt. The time of mating is at its height. The partridges, that hitherto have roamed the fields in coveys (thinned, alas, by the gunners), are now content to go in pairs, the male bird challenging all and sundry to come within his sphere of influence. That they do come ...