The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 pages |
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... year we have been sown , and weeded , and reaped , and garnered . Every year the sun has ripened us , and the rain made us grow ; every year for a thousand years . " " What did you see all that time ? " 8 THE OPEN AIR .
... year we have been sown , and weeded , and reaped , and garnered . Every year the sun has ripened us , and the rain made us grow ; every year for a thousand years . " " What did you see all that time ? " 8 THE OPEN AIR .
Page 10
... that alters our colour . A rough wind gives us one tint , and heavy rain another , and we look different on a cloudy day to what we do on a sunny one . All these colours changed on us when the blackbird was whistling 10 THE OPEN AIR .
... that alters our colour . A rough wind gives us one tint , and heavy rain another , and we look different on a cloudy day to what we do on a sunny one . All these colours changed on us when the blackbird was whistling 10 THE OPEN AIR .
Page 12
... rain , and the wind , and the warm sun . Then a little bird came in the copse and called , ' Sip - sip sip , sip , sip , ' such a sweet low song , and the larks ran along the ground in between us , and there were blue - bells in the ...
... rain , and the wind , and the warm sun . Then a little bird came in the copse and called , ' Sip - sip sip , sip , sip , ' such a sweet low song , and the larks ran along the ground in between us , and there were blue - bells in the ...
Page 17
... rain ? How happy your people could be if they would only agree ! But you go on teaching even the little children to follow the same silly objects , hum , hum , hum , all the day , and they will grow up to hate each other , C and to try ...
... rain ? How happy your people could be if they would only agree ! But you go on teaching even the little children to follow the same silly objects , hum , hum , hum , all the day , and they will grow up to hate each other , C and to try ...
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... " I can't exactly tell where it is , " said the Wheat . " It was very near me once , and I thought the next thunder's rain would wash it down into the streamlet -it has been here ever so long , it came 22 THE OPEN AIR .
... " I can't exactly tell where it is , " said the Wheat . " It was very near me once , and I thought the next thunder's rain would wash it down into the streamlet -it has been here ever so long , it came 22 THE OPEN AIR .
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A. B. GROSART autumn beach beautiful birds black-headed bunting blue boats boughs bright Brighton brown bushes butterfly cloth extra cloth limp colour copse corn creature Crown 8vo dark Demy 8vo earth edge Edited elms face Fcap fern field fish flowers gone grass green Guido happy heat hedge illustrated boards jogger King's Road labour ladies leaves light little Guido London look meadow morning nature nest never Novel passed pebbles pheasant PICCADILLY NOVELS pleasant plough Post 8vo rain red deer RICHARD JEFFERIES river road roof rooks round rushing seemed shadow shot side sparrows spot stalks starlings Stories stream summer sunlight sunshine swallows sward Thames thick things thought thousand tint trees Vols W. S. GILBERT walk wave wheat wild wind wings winter wood yellow yellowhammer