The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 pages |
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Page 4
... gone leaving nothing but black- ness . He touched it and it stained his hands like a dark powder , and then he saw that it was not perfectly black as charcoal is , it was a little red . Something was burning up the corn there just as if ...
... gone leaving nothing but black- ness . He touched it and it stained his hands like a dark powder , and then he saw that it was not perfectly black as charcoal is , it was a little red . Something was burning up the corn there just as if ...
Page 5
... gone up high into the sky again , and did not hear him . All the time Guido was descending the slope , for little feet always go down the hill as water does , and when he looked back he found that he had left the fir - trees so far ...
... gone up high into the sky again , and did not hear him . All the time Guido was descending the slope , for little feet always go down the hill as water does , and when he looked back he found that he had left the fir - trees so far ...
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... gone , like a leaf withered and lost . But we have not forgotten any of the songs they sang us , nor have the swallows that you see to - day - one of them spoke to you just now - forgotten what we said to their Then the blackbirds came ...
... gone , like a leaf withered and lost . But we have not forgotten any of the songs they sang us , nor have the swallows that you see to - day - one of them spoke to you just now - forgotten what we said to their Then the blackbirds came ...
Page 11
... gone , the same colours will come on the wheat that will grow then . It is thinking about those past colours , and songs , and leaves , and of the colours and the sunshine , and the songs , and the leaves that will come in the future ...
... gone , the same colours will come on the wheat that will grow then . It is thinking about those past colours , and songs , and leaves , and of the colours and the sunshine , and the songs , and the leaves that will come in the future ...
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... gone , and all the people were gone too , who had heard the blackbirds whistle in the oak the lightning struck . And those that are alive now- there will be cuckoos calling , and the eggs in the thrush's nests , and blackbirds whistling ...
... gone , and all the people were gone too , who had heard the blackbirds whistle in the oak the lightning struck . And those that are alive now- there will be cuckoos calling , and the eggs in the thrush's nests , and blackbirds whistling ...
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