By Dallas Lore Sharp
ISBN-10: 1110912013
ISBN-13: 9781110912018
ISBN-10: 1519785607
ISBN-13: 9781519785602
"We have had a chain of lengthy, heavy rains," he starts off The Lay of the Land, "and water is status over the swampy meadow. it's a dreary stretch, this rainy, sedgy land within the chilly twilight, drearier than any a part of the woods or the upland pastures. they're empty, however the meadow is flat and rainy, bare and all unsheltered. And a November evening is falling.
The darkness deepens. A uncooked wind is emerging. At 9 o’clock the moon swings around and entire to the crest of the ridge, and pours softly over. I button the heavy ulster shut, and in my rubber boots move all the way down to the river and stick with it out to the center of the meadow, the place it meets the most ditch on the sharp flip towards the swamp. right here on the bend, in the back of a clump of black alders, I sit down quietly down and wait.
I am now not mad, nor depression; i'm really not after reproduction. not anything is the problem with me. i've got pop out to the bend to monitor the muskrats construction, for that small mound up the trench isn't really an outdated haycock, yet a half-finished muskrat house."
This vintage includes the subsequent chapters:
I. The Muskrats Are Building
II. Christmas within the Wood
III. A treatment for Winter
IV. the character Student
V. Chickadee
VI. The lacking Tooth
VII. The signal of the Shad-Bush
VIII. the character Movement
IX. June
X. A damaged Father
XI. excessive Noon
XII. The Palace within the Pig-Pen
XIII. An Account with Nature
XIV. The Buzzard of the undergo Swamp
XV. The Lay of the Land
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