700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 19
700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 19
It was a beautiful night. Although it was very warm the air clear, and it was possible to make out the distant line of the higher land to the east. The leaves moved a little as the night air played among them, and we could hear the sounds of the movement as we walked along. The fireflies were out in their hundreds, and their lights came and went as they flew along. We could follow their course by watching the coming and the going of their little lights. When we first got out of the car and began to walk we thought that everything was still and soundless, but as we grew used to the night we found that all was sound and movement. Masses of little living things were on the move, and they all in turn gave voice to their desires or needs as they went on their way, perhaps looking for food, perhaps moving for no reason at all except the desire not to be still. It was dangerous, people said, to walk about after night had fallen. Animals were out under cover of the night, and would not be see…
