Excerpt from They
Beyond that precise hamlet which stands godmother to the capital of the United States, I found hidden villages where bees, the only things awake, boomed in eighty-foot lindens that overhung grey Norman churches; miraculous brooks diving under stone bridges built for heavier traffic than would ever vex them again; tithe-barns larger than their churches, and an old smithy that cried out aloud how it had once been a hall of the Knights of the Temple. Gipsies I met on a common where the gorse, brackens, and heath fought it out to gether up a mile of Roman road; and a little farther on I disturbed a red fox rolling dog-fashion in the naked sun light.
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ISBN: | 9781330810583 |
Publication date: | 19th November 2018 |
Author: | Rudyard Kipling |
Publisher: | Forgotten Books an imprint of Fb&c Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 188 pages |
Genres: |
Children's and Young Adult Fiction |