1. He had rejoiced in its glossy purplish midsummer beauty which had sheltered the gentle ring-doves that cooed among its branches.

2. The ringdove said:" For what reason are you moving?"

3. The ringdove said: Where are you about to go ?

4. The breeze sank to stillness. In the ravine a ringdove mourned plaintively, and somewhere off in the bushes an owl hooted.

5. A fowler went into the woods to shoot a Ringdove with his bow and arrow, when an adder that he had trodden upon in the grass, urned and stung him.