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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... copse . " I should just like to stroke him , " said Guido . " If I climbed up into the oak perhaps he would come again , and I could catch him . " " No , " said the Wheat , " he only comes once a day . " Then tell me stories , " said ...
... copse . " I should just like to stroke him , " said Guido . " If I climbed up into the oak perhaps he would come again , and I could catch him . " " No , " said the Wheat , " he only comes once a day . " Then tell me stories , " said ...
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... copse is in the way ; how do you find out these things ? " " Oh ! " said the Wheat , laughing , " we have lots of ways of finding out things . Don't you remember the swallow that swooped down and told you not to be frightened at the ...
... copse is in the way ; how do you find out these things ? " " Oh ! " said the Wheat , laughing , " we have lots of ways of finding out things . Don't you remember the swallow that swooped down and told you not to be frightened at the ...
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... copse . " That's my papa , " shouted Guido . " I'm sure that was my papa's gun ! " Up he jumped , and getting down the ditch , stepped across the water , and , seizing a hazel - bough to help himself , climbed up the bank . At the top ...
... copse . " That's my papa , " shouted Guido . " I'm sure that was my papa's gun ! " Up he jumped , and getting down the ditch , stepped across the water , and , seizing a hazel - bough to help himself , climbed up the bank . At the top ...
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... copse below , came on with grasshopper motion - lifted and laid down by the wind , lifted and laid down - I sat on the sward of the sheltered slope , and instantly recognized the orange - red claws of the flower beside me . That was the ...
... copse below , came on with grasshopper motion - lifted and laid down by the wind , lifted and laid down - I sat on the sward of the sheltered slope , and instantly recognized the orange - red claws of the flower beside me . That was the ...
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... copse , so thick as to cover the thin grass , and at the side of the hollow a wasp's nest had been torn out by a badger . On the soft and spreading sand thrown out from his burrow the print of his foot looked as large as an elephant ...
... copse , so thick as to cover the thin grass , and at the side of the hollow a wasp's nest had been torn out by a badger . On the soft and spreading sand thrown out from his burrow the print of his foot looked as large as an elephant ...
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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