. Hours in my garden, and other nature-sketches. With 138 illus. Natural history. 192 Rushes. of " the land of the Lindsays " with the big world and full civilization), how often have we wandered by strips of wood in the centre of great sweeps of boulder-dotted heath land to gather the rushes; and how often have we lain in a sheltered corner—sheltered alike from wind and sun by the tall rushes among which we worked—and through the whole afternoon gathered and patiently extracted piths, getting more and more up to it by practice till the soft white rounded substance would whirl, twist
. Hours in my garden, and other nature-sketches. With 138 illus. Natural history. 192 Rushes. of " the land of the Lindsays " with the big world and full civilization), how often have we wandered by strips of wood in the centre of great sweeps of boulder-dotted heath land to gather the rushes; and how often have we lain in a sheltered corner—sheltered alike from wind and sun by the tall rushes among which we worked—and through the whole afternoon gathered and patiently extracted piths, getting more and more up to it by practice till the soft white rounded substance would whirl, twisting from the greeny case, like the shavings from a plane or a spokeshave, to return proudly, our prize in our hand,and receive praise and commendation—more es- teemed, perhaps, than any praise or commendation we have since received. The only service played bythe pithof the rushnow- adays, so far as we know, is in making the wick of certain night-lights. Most beautiful and imposing of all the rushes is, perhaps, the bulrush, which has come in for a good deal of notice from the poets. Few readers of poetry but will remember Lord Tennyson's fine lines in the " May Queen " :— " When the flowers come again, mother, beneath the waning light, You'll never see me more in the long grey fields at night; When from the dry dark wold the summer airs blow cool On the oat-grass, and the sword-grass, and the bulrush in the ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay), 1839-1905. New York, Macmillan & Co.
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