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Updated: June 10, 2025
So were the few green tussocks, with their scant blades, their amphibious flavor, and unpleasant dampness.
The road was level, though it had not been made at all, only the tussocks removed from it; but it was naturally good a great exception to New Zealand roads. The driver was a steady, respectable man, very intelligent; and when F could make him talk of his experiences in Australia in the early coaching days, I was much interested.
Rich flax and grass made the valley look promising, but on the hill the ground was stony and barren, and shabbily clothed with patches of dry and brown grass, surrounded by a square foot or so of hard ground; between the tussocks, however, there was a frequent though scanty undergrowth which might furnish support for sheep, though it looked burnt up.
And all the Things joined in with a great "Ho, ho!" till the very tussocks shook and the water gurgled. And they began again. "We'll poison her poison her!" shrieked the witches. And "Ho, ho!" howled the Things again. "We'll smother her smother her!" whispered the Crawling Horrors, and twined themselves round her knees. And "Ho, ho!" mocked the rest of them.
Its surface was broken here and there by tussocks of grass and reeds, and beyond it the prairie ran back unbroken, a dim gray waste, to the horizon. The sun had dipped behind the bluff, and the sky had become a vast green transparency.
On the bank behind was a great vigorous growth of golden green skunk-cabbage, that cast dense shadow over the brown swamp tussocks.
The rain washes away the soil from between the tussocks, which stand up like miniature mountains; the heat cracks the ground till it opens in crevices, sometimes a foot wide and a yard or two deep; fallen saplings lie hidden in the shadows to trip the horse, while the stumps stand up to cripple him, and over all is the long grass hiding all perils, and making the horse risk his own neck and his master's at every stride.
The marsh was all pied with white pearly white of blowing cotton-grass; thick, deader white of water-cress in full flower; faint blurred white of thousands of the heath-bedstraw's tiny blossoms. Phoebe in her white gown sprang onto swaying tussocks and picked plumes of cotton-grass to trim herself a garden hat, and Ishmael steadied her passage.
While Kedzie was trying to fit her limber frame among the little hillocks and tussocks on the ground, Charity Coe was sitting at her dressing-table, gazing into the mirror, but seeing beyond her own image. Her lips moved, and her secretary wrote down what she said aloud, and her maid was kneeling to take off Charity Coe's ballroom slippers and slip on her bedroom ditto.
Between the thickets the boggy ground was everywhere covered with great tussocks of last year's dead and faded marsh grass a wet, rough, lonely place where a lover of solitude need have no fear of being intruded on by a being of his own species, or even a wandering moorland donkey.
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