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illustrated by Herbert Cole: Walter Raymond

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Description:Excerpt: ... OF LOOKING AT A FIELD OF WHEAT WE had a thunderstorm in the night. There came a whirlwind and then a torrent of rain that set every tiny rill flowing and cut a deep watercourse in the high-road before my door. By morning the river was in flood. The water, of a deep chocolate colour borrowed of the peat, had risen so quickly that it both covered and hid boulders which had stood high and dry for weeks. The still pool for the time was like a mill-race; and where the stream slackened, a small mountain of yellow foam clung on to the bank. The eye could see nothing of the bright gravel bed even at the ford. The village held an informal meeting on the bridge and decided unanimously that there was to be good fishing the day after to-morrow, "unless we do get some more." We were glad of this, until old Hezekiah Hobbes cast a damper upon our delight by reminding us, "It must ha' beat down the corn terr'ble. I'll warrent it. Some places." A calm had followed the tempest. But for a few white, fleecy clouds the sky was clear. The air was fresh and sweet; for every leaf and flower after a drought of a fortnight had drunk its fill, and all the moss, as well as every little fern between the rocks, was dripping wet. Then I wondered how it had fared with my especial field of wheat. For everything on earth is mine, in so far as it ministers to my delight. All of us, when we cease to think of property, tacitly recognise the ownership conferred by love, and boldly say "my country" without the fee-simple in it of so much as a blade of grass. So that field of wheat was my field of wheat. For a field of wheat, mark you, is a field of wheat. None but a lunatic can deny this. And all the rest is paper. Only the day before, I had stopped to feast my eyes on the...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Book of Simple Delights.. To get started finding The Book of Simple Delights., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt: ... OF LOOKING AT A FIELD OF WHEAT WE had a thunderstorm in the night. There came a whirlwind and then a torrent of rain that set every tiny rill flowing and cut a deep watercourse in the high-road before my door. By morning the river was in flood. The water, of a deep chocolate colour borrowed of the peat, had risen so quickly that it both covered and hid boulders which had stood high and dry for weeks. The still pool for the time was like a mill-race; and where the stream slackened, a small mountain of yellow foam clung on to the bank. The eye could see nothing of the bright gravel bed even at the ford. The village held an informal meeting on the bridge and decided unanimously that there was to be good fishing the day after to-morrow, "unless we do get some more." We were glad of this, until old Hezekiah Hobbes cast a damper upon our delight by reminding us, "It must ha' beat down the corn terr'ble. I'll warrent it. Some places." A calm had followed the tempest. But for a few white, fleecy clouds the sky was clear. The air was fresh and sweet; for every leaf and flower after a drought of a fortnight had drunk its fill, and all the moss, as well as every little fern between the rocks, was dripping wet. Then I wondered how it had fared with my especial field of wheat. For everything on earth is mine, in so far as it ministers to my delight. All of us, when we cease to think of property, tacitly recognise the ownership conferred by love, and boldly say "my country" without the fee-simple in it of so much as a blade of grass. So that field of wheat was my field of wheat. For a field of wheat, mark you, is a field of wheat. None but a lunatic can deny this. And all the rest is paper. Only the day before, I had stopped to feast my eyes on the...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Book of Simple Delights.. To get started finding The Book of Simple Delights., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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