Prose Idylls, New And Old
Prose Idylls, New And Old
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No longer do the ruffs trample the sedge intoa hard floor in their fighting-rings, while the sober reeves standround, admiring the tournament of their lovers, gay with ears andtippets, no two of them alike. Gone are ruffs and reeves, spoonbills, bitterns, avosets; the very snipe, one hears, disdains tobreed. Gone, too, not only from Whittlesea but from the whole world, is that most exquisite of English butterflies, Lycaena dispar--thegreat copper; and many a curious insect more. Ah, well, at le...ast weshall have wheat and mutton instead, and no more typhus and ague;and, it is to be hoped, no more brandy-drinking and opium-eating; andchildren will live and not die. For it was a hard place to live in, the old Fen; a place wherein one heard of 'unexampled instances oflongevity, ' for the same reason that one hears of them in savagetribes--that few lived to old age at all, save those ironconstitutions which nothing could break down.
And now, when the bold Fen-men, who had been fighting water by thehelp of wind, have given up the more capricious element for that moremanageable servant fire; have replaced their wind-mills by steam-engines, which will work in all weathers; and have pumped the wholefen dry--even too dry, as the last hot summer proved; when the onlybit of the primaeval wilderness left, as far as I know, is 200 acresof sweet sedge and Lastraea thelypteris in Wicken Fen: there can beno harm in lingering awhile over the past, and telling of what theGreat Fen was, and how it came to be that great flat which reaches(roughly speaking) from Cambridge to Peterborough on the south-westside, to Lynn and Tattershall on the north-east, some forty miles andmore each way.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
No longer do the ruffs trample the sedge intoa hard floor in their fighting-rings, while the sober reeves standround, admiring the tournament of their lovers, gay with ears andtippets, no two of them alike. Gone are ruffs and reeves, spoonbills, bitterns, avosets; the very snipe, one hears, disdains tobreed. Gone, too, not only from Whittlesea but from the whole world, is that most exquisite of English butterflies, Lycaena dispar--thegreat copper; and many a curious insect more. Ah, well, at le...ast weshall have wheat and mutton instead, and no more typhus and ague;and, it is to be hoped, no more brandy-drinking and opium-eating; andchildren will live and not die. For it was a hard place to live in, the old Fen; a place wherein one heard of 'unexampled instances oflongevity, ' for the same reason that one hears of them in savagetribes--that few lived to old age at all, save those ironconstitutions which nothing could break down.
And now, when the bold Fen-men, who had been fighting water by thehelp of wind, have given up the more capricious element for that moremanageable servant fire; have replaced their wind-mills by steam-engines, which will work in all weathers; and have pumped the wholefen dry--even too dry, as the last hot summer proved; when the onlybit of the primaeval wilderness left, as far as I know, is 200 acresof sweet sedge and Lastraea thelypteris in Wicken Fen: there can beno harm in lingering awhile over the past, and telling of what theGreat Fen was, and how it came to be that great flat which reaches(roughly speaking) from Cambridge to Peterborough on the south-westside, to Lynn and Tattershall on the north-east, some forty miles andmore each way.
What to read after Prose Idylls, New And Old?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Kingsley Charles to read onlineMoreLess
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