I suppose that our legal friends may say that there is a difference between misconduct and "skylarking".
No doubt, they did, but the point is that a few years ago they would have seen 10 or 20 skylarks.
No one who has heard a skylark would say that it should he lost from this country.
We are not doing much to preserve lovely creatures such as the brown hare and the skylark.
If we are to protect the sheld-duck, what about the swans, sparrows, thrushes, blackbirds and skylarks?
But since then skylarks and now thrushes—although the thrush is a garden bird, it depends on farmland habitats—have declined dramatically.
Many other sites are being targeted for development, including those occupied by skylarks, stag beetles and other wildlife.
The children then skylark about, and it is all too easy for a candle to be knocked over and set fire to the bedding.
