thistle-seeds

Updated: May 11, 2025

Then a speck of white down came floating on the air, followed by whitish-gray thistle-seeds, and a whole swarm of gnats, and a big broad bumble-bee swung to and fro. All these eddied, gleaming, in the open doorway, and they went on circling as though there was something there which attracted them all doubtless an accident, or perhaps a festival.

Martin Andersen Nexø - Pelle the Conqueror — Complete

Then a speck of white down came floating on the air, followed by whitish-gray thistle-seeds, and a whole swarm of gnats, and a big broad bumble-bee swung to and fro. All these eddied, gleaming, in the open doorway, and they went on circling as though there was something there which attracted them all doubtless an accident, or perhaps a festival.

Martin Andersen Nexø - Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02