The Tortoise-Shell Comb (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tortoise-Shell Comb Sunk instead of a pump. There were other Springs in the wood, and together they formed a gleeful little brook, which was never dry the season through, but twisted and turned its pretty course over a pebbly channel, and through the wood and a mea dow, till it was met by a larger one, mur muring and babbling to it. Here, like a coy, modest little brook, as she was, She made a few retreats round clumps of bar berry bushes and grassy hillocks. Then, peering out again like a gleam of sunshine, she ran along a narrow strip of verdure which grew narrower and narrower, till finally our little wild-wood brook was wooed and wedded by the boisterous meadow stream, and together they went prattling down the course to an old mill you might just see in the distance, and where, in their united strength, they turned the wheel which ground the corn and wheat for all the farm ers for miles around. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.