Highways and byways in Surrey . st soli- is: HINDMEAI) IN SUNSHINE tary thing in the country-side. But on Hindhead there isahvays wild life moving. I have seen strange visitors there; asstrange as any were a brood of pheasants, almost on the highestridge. Or perhaps even odder hill-dwellers are the tadpoleswhich swarm in the summer in the little pools on the highestridge itself. What should frogs be doing on Hindhead ?Perhaps they are toads. But the happiest and the mostgraceful of all living things on Hindhead are the swifts. Tome, indeed, they are a part of the place ; they belong to thathot
Highways and byways in Surrey . st soli- is: HINDMEAI) IN SUNSHINE tary thing in the country-side. But on Hindhead there isahvays wild life moving. I have seen strange visitors there; asstrange as any were a brood of pheasants, almost on the highestridge. Or perhaps even odder hill-dwellers are the tadpoleswhich swarm in the summer in the little pools on the highestridge itself. What should frogs be doing on Hindhead ?Perhaps they are toads. But the happiest and the mostgraceful of all living things on Hindhead are the swifts. Tome, indeed, they are a part of the place ; they belong to thathot clear air over the height of the downs, to the sense ofimmense distance of green fields spread south to Chancton-bury Ring and north to Nettlebed by Henley. I never thinkof Hindhead without two sights of summer; of childrenwandering over the hill-side with their lips stained withbilberries ; and the swifts sailing in royal circles high in theblue or screaming in pursuing companies, close and low over the roadway down the The Post Office, Churt.
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