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Here after a heavy frost, they used to cut reeds, and on the occasion of great hunting matches they would drive up masses of foxes and wolves; and all the huntsmen of the neighborhood might lie in wait in its expanse for fowl from morn till eve, and if they pleased, might roam at will in a canoe and destroy the swarms of winged inhabitants of the fen: no one would interrupt them.
"Yes," said Tom solemnly, "something that isn't always nice." "Well, you do sometimes," said Dick, "but not often. But I wouldn't leave the old place for thousands of pounds. Why, where would you get another like it with its old walls, and vaults, and cellars, and thick walls, and the monks' fish-ponds, and all right up on a high toft with the river on one side, and the fen for miles on the other.
In this hollow tree the wood-duck reared her brood, and slid away each day to forage in yonder fen. In winter, nature is a cabinet of curiosities, full of dried specimens, in their natural order and position. The meadows and forests are a hortus siccus.
"There be dangers on the Watling Street as well as in the fen," said Humphrey. In the meanwhile the keeper of the Shorn Lamb was having his enjoyment at the expense of Walter Skinner. He bade him serve the three strangers and fear nothing, as no one would recognize him in the guise of a scullion. "Why, here didst thou come strutting it finely," said the innkeeper, in a mocking tone.
Dick sat stroking the cat for a few minutes and then rose, to go to the long low casement bay-window, draw aside the curtain, and look out over the black fen.
wades through the fen when it goes in search of prey, and why shouldst thou not stoop to pick up gold out of the dust? I know how thou couldst speak with the old woman without being seen." "Speak," said Ani. "Throw her into prison for a day, hear what she has to say, and then release her with gifts if she is of service to you if not, with blows.
And there was another element in Wordsworth's life at Cambridge more peculiarly his own that exultation which a boy born among the mountains may feel when he perceives that the delight in the external world which the mountains have taught him has not perished by uprooting, nor waned for want of nourishment in field or fen; that even here, where nature is unadorned, and scenery, as it were, reduced to its elements, where the prospect is but the plain surface of the earth, stretched wide beneath an open heaven, even here he can still feel the early glow, can take delight in that broad and tranquil greenness, and in the august procession of the day.
Of course these rides were not had in the sty, nor yet in the farm-yard, but out along by the edge of the fen, and the enjoyment was nearly perfect till it was brought to an end, always in the same way, as soon as a nice convenient shallow pool was encountered, for here Lady Winthorpe, as she was called, always lay down for a comfortable wallow, when it was no use to wait for another ride, for the seat became too wet.
Yes I do. Mr Marston said he should like a few more to put in his case. I say, they are getting on with the drain," Dick continued, as he shaded his eyes and gazed at where, a mile away, the engineer's men were wheeling peat up planks, and forming a long embankment on either side of the cutting through the fen. "Can you see Mr Marston from here?" "Why, of course not! Come along!
"Burn her?" and William swore. "I promised my soldiers to burn the witch with reeds out of Haddenham fen, as she had burned them; and I must keep my knightly word." William swore yet more. Ivo Taillebois was a butcher and a churl. "Call me not butcher and churl too often, Lord King, ere thou hast found whether thou needest me or not. Rough I may be, false was I never."
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