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In a perfectly wild state they use natural material because it is the handiest and there is really no other. The phoebe uses the moss on or near the rocks where she builds; the sparrows, the bobolinks, and the meadowlarks use the dry grass of the bank or of the meadow bottom where the nest is placed.
And when he demanded 'Eh? she said hastily: 'Anyway, we are doing something. That is more fun than growing moss, even if we never succeed. 'I tell you, he declared forensically, lifting his hand for a gesture, 'I know! Haven't I demonstrated the infallibility of my line of action?
Middleton, despite his serenity, looked as if he had undergone all sorts of things. So had Elsie Moss. Even poor old Kate had had her share. On the other hand, there was Mrs. Middleton, there was Elsie's own grandmother and her mother. And there was Elsie herself. She had never had anything hard in her life until within a fortnight.
Gentle creatures haunted it, and there was none to make afraid; wood-pigeons cooed and crickets chirped their shrill roundelays, anemones and lady-ferns looked up from the moss that kissed the wanderer's feet.
He is the most good-tempered fellow in the world, and you would like him very much. Here is Mr. Moss." Mr. Moss had opened the door and had entered the room. The greeting between the two men was closely observed by Rachel, who, though she was very imprudent in much that she did and much that she said, never allowed anything to pass by her unobserved. Mr.
As the eyes become accustomed to this green gloaming, a pathway outlines itself between the trees a pathway wholly covered with moss, velvety, soft, and beautifully verdant. In former years, when all pilgrims were required to remove their footgear before entering the sacred grove, this natural carpet was a boon to the weary.
Moss, whisking up a corner of her apron to wipe her eyes, for the thought of the poor little fellow alone there for two days and nights with no bed but musty straw, no food but the scraps a dog brought him, was too much for her.
"Have you anything to say, Sister?" she asked. "Yes, Zoola. Here is a little moss that I have found upon the stones," and she produced a small bundle. "Let us boil it and eat, it will keep us alive for another day." "What is the use?" asked Rachel, "unless there is more." "There is no more," said Noie, "for the leaves of yonder tree are deadly poison, and here grows no other living thing.
The animals are attracted by moss and lichens placed for them on the opposite side of the trap in such a way that they cannot be reached without crossing the slab. In this sort of trap several deer are frequently caught during a single day."
Something like fifty yards of broken ground, grey rock, moss and lichen, lay between, and over all lay the curtain of the night and the great whispering winds from the forests of Scandinavia.
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