Though Moss Is
Common On Branches, It Does Not Often Make A Raised Cushion, Thick, As If
Green Velvet Pile Were Laid For The Birds To Run On.
There were rooks'
nests in some tall ash trees; the scanty foliage left the nests exposed,
they were still occupied by late broods.
Rooks' nests are not often seen
in ashes as in elms.
By a mossy bank a little girl - a miniature Audrey - stout, rosy, and
ragged, stood with a yellow straw hat aslant on her yellow hair, eating
the leaves from a spray of beech in her hand. Audrey looked at us, eating
the beech leaves steadily, but would not answer, not even 'Where's your
father to?' For in Somerset the 'to' is put last, and must never be
omitted; thus, instead of saying 'I bought this at Taunton,' it is
correct to say 'I bought this to Taunton.' There are models under glass
cases in places of entertainment with a notice to say that if a penny be
inserted the machine will go. Audrey the Little would not speak, but when
a penny was put in her hand she began to move, and made off for home with
the treasure. The road turned and turned, but whichever way the Barle was
always under us, and the red rock rose high at the side. This rock
fractures aslant if worked, vast flakes come out, and the cleavage is so
natural that until closely approached a quarry appears a cliff.
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