A. feed F. prosperous K. violently B. drifted G. migrants L. abundance C. harmony H. heart M. spell D. puzzle I. delighted N. raised E. blaze J. silence O. complain There was once a town in the 01. ______ of America where all life seemed to live in 02. ______ with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of 03. ______ farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom 04. ______ above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a 05. ______ of colour that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of the autumn mornings. Along the roads, laurel, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wild flowers, 06. ______ the traveller's eye through much of the year. Even in winter the roadsides were places of beauty, where countless birds came to 07. ______ on the berries and on the seed heads of the dried weeds rising above the snow. The countryside was, in fact, famous for the 08. ______ and variety of its bird life, and when the flood of 09. ______ was pouring through in spring and autumn people travelled from great distances to observe them. Others came to fish the streams, which flowed clear and cold out of the hills and contained shady pools where trout lay. So it had been from the days many years ago when the first settlers 10. ______ their houses, sank their wells and built their barns.