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The early morning of the 27th was an affair of slatternly* rags soaking in a dishwater sky, with a grey light weakly filtering through. Nevertheless, in Oppley cocks crowed and other birds welcomed the dawn more melodiously. In Midwich, however, no birds sang. In Oppley, as in other places, hands were soon reaching out to silence alarm clocks, but in Midwich the clocks rattled on until they ran down. For Midwich lay entranced. While the rest of the world began to fill the morning with clamour, Midwich slept on. Its men and women, its horses, cows and sheep; its pigs, its poultry, its larks, moles and mice all lay still. There was a pocket of silence in Midwich, broken only by the rustling of the leaves, the chiming of the church clock, and the gurgle of the River Opple as it slid over the weir beside the mill.
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