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Updated: May 29, 2025
At work hoeing among the 'kelk' or 'kilk, the bright yellow charlock, the labourers stood up as the cuckoo flew over singing, and blew cuckoo back to him in their hollow fists. This is a trick they have, something like whistling in the fist, and so naturally done as to deceive any one.
The bright yellow of the 'kelk' spread in several directions; and here and there rose thin wreaths of white smoke, where a pile of uprooted couch-grass was burning; the scent was borne hither by a breeze that could be scarcely felt. The clock of the old church struck four. 'A kindness, Mrs. Ormonde! said Annabel. 'Let me stay here whilst you drive down into the village.
"I thought all England was a garden. There's your spire, George, across the valley. How curious!" They walked toward it through an all abandoned land. Here they found the ghost of a patch of lucerne that had refused to die: there a harsh fallow surrendered to yard-high thistles; and here a breadth of rampant kelk feigning to be lawful crop.
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