If ten birds are sitting in a tree and a hunter shoots one, how many birds are left in the tree?

Asap that time of year thou mayst in me behold when yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang upon those boughs which shake against the cold, bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. in this excerpt, what is the best meaning for the word "late"? not on time until recently dead well into the evening

The missionaries who appear in the novel are colonists from britain portugal spain italy

How many lynching took place in the south between 1877 and 1950