Marsh-Country Rambles
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217509299
Paperback|9780217509299
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II WAKERING MARSH There was every prospect of rough weather as I left Southend, and, crossing the railroad, set my face towards Southchurch. A stiff sou'-wester had buffeted my w1ndow throughout the night; it gathered strength as the day broke, and was loudly blustering as I paused upon the hillside to examine the Norman doorway in the church. Overhead the sea-gulls soared and poised; as I continued my way towards North Shoebury numbers of them were busy upon the freshly ploughed fields, snatching an early lunch among the rooks and starlings. And a goodJy sight they were in the eyes of one who loves birds almost as much as books. An old rhyme, more widely known in the bonny West, came to memory: ' Sea-gull, sea-gull, sit on the sand; It's never fine weather when you come to land.' Here they were, on land in great numbers, and, asthe event proved, they had brought rough weather to keep them company. ' Men scarcely know how beautiful fire is, ' wrote Shelley, and Lowell, quoting the line, very naturally remarked that there are other things concerning which we are not overburdened with knowledge. Few persons have considered the beauty of the gulls. I have seen them near the Lydstep Caverns, on the coast of Pembrokeshire, resting on every coign of vantage or rocky ledge, while the storm-winds thundered in each cavernous hollow and hardly another living creature was in sight. I have peered over the high precipice of Beachy Head, and have watched them, apparently motionless, poised betwixt earth . and heaven in the teeth of a tremendous gale. I have seen them following in the wake of steamers rounding the Needles, thick as midges on a summer's eve, and have watched them hover, thicker still, over the deck of a trawler off Caldy Isle, when the crew were gutting soles in t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217509299 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217509290 |
| Weight | 0.56 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 166 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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