papyrus-fringed

Updated: May 11, 2025

Three days after, they were at the rice mill, and a July day was breaking. Isaka lay and listened to the lapping of the lake water lapping of the water in the greatest of African lakes. He was lying beside a creek that was papyrus-fringed with curtains of feathery green. A cloud of lake flies hung dark in the distance.

Arthur Shearly Cripps - Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales