g dusk.

The big day was over, and the old cock-pheasant was alone with the
melancholy song of a single robin, and a chaffinch calling "Chink!"
And the cold breath of the sunset wind, shuddering and sighing all to
itself across the face of the empty scene, touched the feathers that
were left by the hen-pheasant attached to thorns and twigs in her last
struggle, so that they danced and wavered and flickered before the old
cock's eyes, as a reminder of all that had been for them in the
past--the past, which for him, but never for her, might be again.

That night he roosted in the covert, as usual.

THE END

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