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Flora Klickmann. The Trail of the Ragged Robin
The Trail of the Ragged Robin
Table of Contents
The Plash of the Plover’s. Brook
Bella Introduces Herself
Bella Explains Her. Mission
Enlightening the Village
Bella Becomes Attached. to Us
Mrs. Poddles Lends a. Hand
Bella finds New Interest
The Party
The Farewell
Bee-Balm and Bergamot
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Flora Klickmann
Published by Good Press, 2021
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No painter, no writer could ever do justice to the picture as I have seen it many a time in June: the brooks splashing down the steep, over rocks, over massive tree roots, catching the cones from the pines in passing and tossing them about like balls; making bird baths innumerable but leaving the warm, flat stones where the woodpigeons and pheasants stand to drink, and the squirrels and rabbits sit awhile to wash their faces after a meal. And then the sweep of colour!—the bright green of the bracken; the darker tones of the thickets; the ruddy tints on the shoots of young oaks and maples; the flush of the wild roses; the cream of the elder blossoms; rank upon rank of foxgloves; dazzling sheets of ox-eye daisies; masses of rose-purple wood betony; shining yellow of trefoil, hawkweed and buttercups; and ever following the trail of the stream, the jaunty ragged robins in a mist of trembling grass.
The rest of the brook’s journey riverward is through this wild, rock-strewn land, till at last it falls six feet, then ten feet, then twenty feet—a series of full cascades—and drops into a cool, dark, fern-draped cavern under the hill, beloved of the cattle, but far from the haunts of the motoring tourist. From here, it takes a quiet stroll across the level river meadows—just a moment’s breathing space, and no more, before it joins the river, near the foaming, rushing turmoil of the weir that knows neither pause nor rest.
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