Highways and byways in Surrey . Hill juts up dark and commanding to the north ;the level line of the ridge on the left, a few hundred yards away,is broken and humped with barrows ; far away to the east liesCharterhouse, grey in the haze by Godalming ; behind, to thesouth-east, the Devils Jumps, three little squat, conical hillswhose very oddity is one of their attractions. They edge thehorizon like inverted pudding bowls covered with bracken, andwith bell-heather kindling to crimson in the July sunlight. in JULY WATERLILIES 37 July IS the month in which to visit Frensham Little
Highways and byways in Surrey . Hill juts up dark and commanding to the north ;the level line of the ridge on the left, a few hundred yards away,is broken and humped with barrows ; far away to the east liesCharterhouse, grey in the haze by Godalming ; behind, to thesouth-east, the Devils Jumps, three little squat, conical hillswhose very oddity is one of their attractions. They edge thehorizon like inverted pudding bowls covered with bracken, andwith bell-heather kindling to crimson in the July sunlight. in JULY WATERLILIES 37 July IS the month in which to visit Frensham Little Pond,It was an accident which first showed me the pond as it oughtto be seen, and as few see it. I had been watching a numberof herons through my glasses; one of them eyeing me discon-tentedly from the reeds on a southern arm of the water, andthree more flapping majestically over the trees, apparently drop-ping suddenly down into the valley of the \Vey. Trying to take ashort cut to the stream I missed my way among the woodland. ti^^n* Briifge at Tilford. rides, and suddenly found myself again on the edge of thepond. It was worth making the mistake. The northern corner ofthe pond by the little boathouse is one sheet of white corner runs into a rough triangle, with two sides fifty yardsin length and a base of perhaps thirty yards. There must benearly a thousand square yards of lilies, and from five to tenlilies to the yard, green buds, opening blossoms, and greatwhite cups and gold-centred chalices, wet and swaying in thewind. Through all the summer those lilies flower, and there 38 THE TILFORD OAK chap. cannot be as many people see them as there are , it would be difficult to find them unless you werewalking : you could not drive a motor-car or ride a bicycledown those sandy lanes, and nobody on foot would pick thelilies. To walk from Frensham Little Pond over Tilford Commonto Tilford is to traverse some of the wildest and freshestcommonland in
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