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Then the clouds clodded down till dismal it grew; The snake sneaked close; round Birdie Brown flew; The brook sat up like a snake on its tail; And the wind came up with a what-will-you wail; And all the creatures sat and stared; The mole opened his very eyes and glared; And for rats and bats and the world and his wife, Little Boy Blue was afraid of his life.
sang, or rather shouted, a little Corporal, whom we have met before in these pages, as he made ridiculous efforts to infuse life into heels clodded with mud. "Talk as you please about old Pigey, boys, he's a regular trump on the whiskey question. He'll cut red-tape any day on that.
A vast, rolling wilderness of clodded earth, browned and baked by the sun; here and there masses of red rock heaving themselves above the soil like protruding ribs of the earth, and a vast coating of drowthy dust, lying like snow upon the ground. To the left, a long ridge of iron-like mountains on all sides rolling hills, stern and kneaded, looking as though frozen.
It seems a good idea. ... She has been climbing that tree again. Clodded her out of it. She said nobody was looking. Seems to consider that a sufficient justification for chancing any dangerous thing. Told her that. The word justification moved her admiration and envy, too, I thought. It is a good word. TUESDAY. She told me she was made out of a rib taken from my body.
'I believe that's very true, said the postilion. 'So, sir, she grippit him, and clodded him like a stane from the sling ower the craigs of Warroch Head, where he was found that evening; but what became of the babe, frankly I cannot say. But he that was minister here then, that's now in a better place, had an opinion that the bairn was only conveyed to fairy-land for a season.
'I believe that's very true, said the postilion. 'So, sir, she grippit him, and clodded him like a stane from the sling ower the craigs of Warroch Head, where he was found that evening; but what became of the babe, frankly I cannot say. But he that was minister here then, that's now in a better place, had an opinion that the bairn was only conveyed to fairy-land for a season.
"Be still the unimaginable lodge For solitary thinkings; such as dodge Conception to the very bourn of Heaven, Then leave the naked brain; be still the leaven That, spreading in this dull and clodded earth, Gives it a touch ethereal, a new birth."
"But ye wadna wait to hear out my tale, Monkbarns she gaed out, and she came in again with the gardener sae sune as she saw that nane o' ye were clodded ower the Craig, and that Miss Wardour was safe in the chariot; she was hame a quarter of an hour syne, for it's now ganging ten sair droukit was she, puir thing, sae I e'en put a glass o' sherry in her water-gruel."
After that they took a little trip into the mountains near by, and Cherry sent Alix postcards that made her sister feel almost a pang of envy. But then the routine began again, and the fearful heat of midsummer came, too. Red Creek baked in a smother of dusty heat, the trees in the dry orchards, beside the dry roads, dropped circles of hot shadow on the clodded, rough earth.
the leaven That spreading in this dull and clodded earth Gives it a touch ethereal. His worship is all the more sincere because it is not self-conscious. If you were to tell the trout-fisher, or the duck-shooter, or the camper-out, that he is a worshipper of Pan, he would look at you in a kindly bewilderment. He would seem a little anxious about you, but it would be only a verbal misunderstanding.
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