LESSON LX.
coot, a water-bird.
hern (her'on), a wading bird.
ed'dying, moving in small circles.
mal'low, a kind of plant.
bick'er, move quickly; quarrel.
fal'low, plowed land.
gray'ling, a kind of fish.
cress'es, a kind of water-plant.
sal'ly, a rushing or bursting forth.
thorps, villages.
bram'bly, full of rough shrubs.
THE BROOK.
I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally,
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.
By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,