Word: hedgerow
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...rustic freedom to which the carefully "brought up" city girls aspire. But Selina and Moira have imaginative resources of which the envied farm girls do not dream. Out of their dolls and stuffed animals, which make up a kind of fairy conclave named "The Lodge," out of the hedgerow flowers, the old oast-houses, the picnics in Flatropers Wood there emerge, for Selina at least, glimpses of the ancient lyric dream of Albion. But for all that, the girls squabble like fury now & then, kick violently against their nurse's pricks. When the children get the notion that...
...dawdling to talk with old men as they drove their cattle along the roads. The moors stretched out around the village of Upper Hampton where he lived; at night the wind blew a mist across them, muffling soft sounds, making a dog's voice, searching along some far hedgerow, an obscure dangerous signal, a portent of sorrow. The quiet tides of the country, the slow changes of the land and its people, were a solemn whisper always ringing in his ears like the sea's slow music echoing in a shell. It is easy to believe the legends...
...FIELD OF MUSTARD-A. E. Coppard-Knopf ($2.50). Short-Storyteller Coppard, nut-brown pantheist, transcribes life in hedgerow England with a simplicity that seems accurate and genuine. His overtones are of something dark, gentle, gypsyesque. Some themes: an errant stag and a hearty poacher; lusty village women, lying in a mustard field after fagot-gathering, wish that love could return; the noblesse oblige of a lonely schoolmaster and a proud lady; two aging, air-plant spinsters and how one of them nearly took root in village soil...