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Updated: June 2, 2025
"Well, my lads," cried Hopley, in his bluff, deep voice, "seen the owls?" "Yes; and now, I say, Bob Hopley, you'll let us go through the big beech-wood, and round by the hammer pond?" "What for?" said the keeper. "It's holiday to-day, and I want to show this chap, our new boy, round." "What! to teach him mischief like you know?" "Get out. I don't do any mischief. You might let us go."
Beech-wood is especially good for fuel. Only the sycamore, the Scotch pine, and the ash give out more heat and light when they burn. Beech-nuts or beech-mast, as it is called are eaten by many animals. Pigs, deer, poultry, &c., are turned into beech-woods to fatten on the mast. Squirrels and dormice delight in it. In France it is used to make beech-oil.
Coming back from the waterside through the wood, after the hottest hours of the day were over, the crooning of the turtle-doves would be heard again on every side that summer beech-wood lullaby that seemed never to end.
"Ah, my lord," breathed the girl, "I have very often slept there." "And what shall we do for food, Isoult?" "I will provide for that, my lord." It was by this time high noon, hot and still. Having climbed the ridge, they found themselves at the edge of a dense beech-wood, to which there appeared no end.
I am sure papa enjoys this lovely evening. Hark! how the doves are cooing in the beech-wood." I asked her if she had ever been in the beech-wood. No; she was quite unacquainted with its mysteries the fern-glades, the woodbine tangles, and the stream, that, if you listened attentively, you could hear faintly gurgling even where we sat. "I did not know there was a stream so near.
That long, quiet Sunday, when, I remember, the sun never came out all day, but the whole earth and sky melted together in a soft, grey haze; when we lay on the common and heard church-bells ringing, some distant, some near; and, after all was quiet, talked our own old sabbath talks, of this world and the world to come; when, towards twilight, we went down into the beech-wood below the house, and sat idly there among the pleasant-smelling ferns; when, from the morning to the evening, he devoted himself altogether to my comfort and amusement to perfect which required of him no harder duty than to be near me always; that Sunday was the last I ever had David altogether for my own my very own.
It wur a bad day for me as ever I come to Lunnon! I'm Norfolk born, I am: and I had eight sons, which the last was Fred, who, they say, met his death in Colmoor...." At that word, "Fred", Hogarth started: for under the elm in the beech-wood between Thring and Priddlestone Fred had concealed a thing fallen from heaven, which could be sold for a thousand pounds.
The antediluvian animals are set in a beech-wood on a slope at least half a mile across the park from the castle. The grandfather of the present Lord Yalding had them set there in the middle of last century, in the great days of the late Prince Consort, the Exhibition of 1851, Sir Joseph Paxton, and the Crystal Palace.
And as close as are the tree-trunks that within the beech-wood thrive E'en so many are their pillars; and therein like men alive Stand the images of god-folk in such raiment as they wore In the years before the cities and the hidden days of yore. Ah for the gold that I gazed on! and their store of battle gear, And strange engines that I knew not, or the end for which they were.
We had the lamp lit, but the windows were wide open; and through the sultry summer night we could hear the trickle of the stream and the rustle of the leaves in the beech-wood.
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