brackenfern

Updated: July 9, 2025

Now, this Tregarden Down, as he always described it to me, is a lonesome place given over to brackenfern and strewn about with great granite boulders, and on one of these boulders my father sat down, because the night was clear and a fancy had come into his head to count the stars.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Major Vigoureux