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There isn't a hill so barren, nor a turf-pit so square, nor a road so monotonous, that I cannot for a moment fall in love with it." "But what joy can you take in a tree or a bush, if you don't imagine that a living being dwells within it, that opens and closes the flowers and smooths the leaves?
And among the heathery mounds there wound a strip of grass that looked like a path; but it was no path, for it stopped on the very brink of a turf-pit that was larger than the others, and deeper also. In this grassy strip the fox lay and lurked, quite flat, and the hare bounded lightly over the heather.
In the twilight the little grassy strip wound in and out among the heather, as if it were a path; but it was no path no one must believe it to be a path for it led to the very brink of the great turf-pit. The hare started up; it had heard a splash.
According to Way, Promptorium Parrulorum, p. 506, note, the Catholicon Anglicanum has "A turfe grafte, turbarium." Grafte is here evidently the same word as the A.-S. grafa, and the Danish Torvegraf, a turf-pit, confirms this opinion.
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