ash-copse

Updated: June 11, 2025

There were the fir-trees behind him a thick wall of green hedges on the right and left, and the wheat sloped down towards an ash-copse in the hollow. No one was in the field, only the fir-trees, the green hedges, the yellow, wheat, and the sun overhead. Guido kept quite still, because he expected that in a minute the magic would begin, and something would speak to him.

Emilie Kip Baker - Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools

There were the fir-trees behind him a thick wall of green hedges on the right and the left, and the wheat sloped down towards an ash-copse in the hollow. No one was in the field, only the fir-trees, the green hedges, the yellow wheat, and the sun overhead, Guido kept quite still, because he expected that in a minute the magic would begin, and something would speak to him.

Richard Jefferies - The Open Air