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Updated: May 16, 2025
Two days later a patrol was found at the foot o the Devil's Chimney, heads bashed in. Blow'd over o course! Week a'terwards petty officer found drowned in dew-pond top o Warren Hill. Accident o course! Next day common seaman hung in his own braces Jevington Holt. Suicide o course!
Watch His visits to a dew-pond David and his dog Monk Watch goes to David's assistance Caleb's new master objects to his dog Watch and the corn-crake Watch plays with rabbits and guinea-pigs Old Nance the rook-scarer The lost pair of spectacles Watch in decline Grey hairs in animals A grey mole Last days of Watch A shepherd on old sheep-dogs
From the highest point where a famous gibbet stands for ever a thousand feet above the sea and where there is a dew-pond, the highest in England, which has never dried up although a large flock of sheep drink in it every summer day, one looks down into an immense hollow, a Devil's Punch Bowl very many times magnified, and spies, far away and far below, a few lonely houses half hidden by trees at the bottom.
They had drunk together the cold nectar of a prehistoric dew-pond that lay within a hundred yards of the cave and Desdemona had turned away curtly and hurried back to the cave, with never a lick or a look in Finn's direction, as though she feared he might take the place away in his teeth.
Old Piper says, when he was a boy, the creek used to fill at spring-tides." At the top of the hill Kit looked about him. The Wish thrust out into the brown beach, a natural watch-tower, some hundred feet high. This was no doubt the bump of green he had seen from the dew-pond. Eastward a long sweep of shingle embraced Pevensey Bay. Westward, Beachy Head shouldered out into the sea.
There the appeal of her liquid eyes, no less than the meaning little whine which escaped her, said, plainly: "Don't go inside! Stay there, on guard!" A few seconds later and she stood drinking eagerly, quickly, beside the dew-pond.
Then, by chance, it was discovered that the chains in which the murderers had been hanged had been thrown by some evil-minded person into a dew-pond on the farm.
Hilary would have indignantly and sincerely denied the existence. Gerda's young mind was a cess-pool, a clear little dew-pond, according to how you looked at it. Gerda and Gerda's friends knew no inhibitions of speech or thought. They believed that the truth would make them free, and the truth about life is, from some points of view, a squalid and gross thing.
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