The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1901 - 302 páginas Papers originally contributed to various English periodicals. Saint Guido.--Golden-brown.--Wild flowers.--Sunny Brighton.--The pine wood.--Nature on the roof.--One of the new voters.--The modern Thames.--The single-barrel gun.--The haunt of the hare.--The bathing season.--Under the acorns.--Downs.--Forest.--Beauty in the country.--Out of doors in February.--Haunts of the lapwing.--Outside London.--On the London road.--Red roofs of London.--A wet night in London. |
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... mile away . Suddenly he thought something went over , and yet he did not see it - perhaps it was the shadow -and he looked up and saw a large bird not very far up , not farther than he could fling , or shoot his arrows , and the bird ...
... mile away . Suddenly he thought something went over , and yet he did not see it - perhaps it was the shadow -and he looked up and saw a large bird not very far up , not farther than he could fling , or shoot his arrows , and the bird ...
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... miles away , and some- times we are sown where we can hear the hum , hum , all day of the children learning in the school . The butterflies flutter over us , and the sun shines , and the doves are very , very happy at their nest , but ...
... miles away , and some- times we are sown where we can hear the hum , hum , all day of the children learning in the school . The butterflies flutter over us , and the sun shines , and the doves are very , very happy at their nest , but ...
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... mile distant , you will find a change in the air , the feeling , and tone of the place . It is close by , but it is not the same . To discover these minute differences , which make one locality healthy and home happy , and the next ...
... mile distant , you will find a change in the air , the feeling , and tone of the place . It is close by , but it is not the same . To discover these minute differences , which make one locality healthy and home happy , and the next ...
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... miles to London , and 250 to Paris ; how then can this be ? Fish somehow slip through ordinary rules , being slimy of surface ; the maxims of the writers on demand and supply are quite ignored , and there is no groping to the bottom of ...
... miles to London , and 250 to Paris ; how then can this be ? Fish somehow slip through ordinary rules , being slimy of surface ; the maxims of the writers on demand and supply are quite ignored , and there is no groping to the bottom of ...
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... odour of tar if you like , but you see it is outside intolerable civilization . It is a hundred miles from the King's Road , though but just under it . There is a scheme on foot for planking over the 58 THE OPEN AIR .
... odour of tar if you like , but you see it is outside intolerable civilization . It is a hundred miles from the King's Road , though but just under it . There is a scheme on foot for planking over the 58 THE OPEN AIR .
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autumn beautiful bees birds black-headed bunting blue boats boughs bramble bright Brighton brown bushes butterfly colour comes copse corn creature curve dark earth edge elms eyot face fern field fish flowers forest gleaming gone grass gray horse green Guido happy heat hedge hills jogger King's Road labour lapwings lark leaves light little Guido London look meadow morning nature nest never newsvendors pass pebbles pheasant pleasant plough plovers rain ramsons red deer RICHARD JEFFERIES rise river road roof rooks round rush seems shadow shot side singing slope sparrows spot stalks starlings stream summer sunlight sunshine surface swallows sward Thames thick things thought thousand tint touch trees walk wall wasps watch wave West Pier wheat whistle wild wind wings winter wood yellow yellowhammer yonder