Far Away And Long Ago A History Of My Early Life By W. H. Hudson








































































 -  The trees, both fruit and shade, were of many kinds, and
belonged to two widely-separated periods. The first were - Page 53
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The Trees, Both Fruit And Shade, Were Of Many Kinds, And Belonged To Two Widely-Separated Periods.

The first were the old trees planted by some tree-loving owner a century or more before our time, and the second the others which had been put in a generation or two later to fill up some gaps and vacant places and for the sake of a greater variety.

The biggest of the old trees, which I shall describe first, was a red willow growing by itself within forty yards of the house. This is a native tree, and derives its specific name _rubra,_ as well as its vernacular name, from the reddish colour of the rough bark. It grows to a great size, like the black poplar, but has long narrow leaves like those of the weeping willow. In summer I was never tired of watching this tree, since high up in one of the branches, which in those days seemed to me "so close against the sky," a scissor-tail tyrant-bird always had its nest, and this high open exposed nest was a constant attraction to the common brown carrion-hawk, called _chimango_ - a hawk with the carrion-crow's habit of perpetually loitering about in search of eggs and fledglings.

The scissor-tail is one of the most courageous of that hawk-hating, violent-tempered tyrant-bird family, and every time a _chimango_ appeared, which was about forty times a day, he would sally out to attack him in mid-air with amazing fury.

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