Forest Folk (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Forest FolkIt was a day of an ever-varying greyness, as the days are grey in November under a brisk southwest wind, when the Sun is never quite successful in breaking through the clouds, never completely in prison behind them. Snow had fallen the day before, rain in the night, there were re minders Of both in the dull glimmer of the wayside puddles, in the narrow strips of white by hedge and bank, under fur row and bush, or occasionally in larger patches on the Sun less Side of a hill. The afternoon Of such a day did not Show such a country to the best advantage, an undulating expanse covered as far as the eye could reach with green gorse, brown bracken, grey ling. A horseman's cursory glance would hardly be caught by the scanty gleam of yel low amid the gorse, which true to the proverb that it goes out of bloom only when kissing goes out of fashion, showed here and there the peep of a warmer colour between its sombre spikes. There was no shelter anywhere from the keenness of the wind. The fallow deer, which when the then old men were young had browsed the sward in large herds, were gone, as the trees under which they had harboured were gone. But there were plenty of rabbits.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.