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THE GIRL'S OWN PAPER
VOL. VIII.--NO. 355.
OCTOBER 16, 1886.
PRICE ONE PENNY.
THE BROOK AND ITS BANKS.
BY THE REV. J. G. WOOD, M.A., Author of "The Handy Natural History."
"Whyles owre a linn the burnie plays,
As through the glen it dimpl't;
Whyles round a rocky scaur it strays;
Whyles in a weil it dimpl't;
Whyles glittered to the nightly rays,
Wi' bickering, dancing dazzle;
Whyles cookit underneath the braes
Below the spreading hazel."
_Burns: "Halloween."_
[Illustration: THE BROOK AND ITS BANKS.]
CHAPTER I.
The many aspects of a brook--The eye sees only that which it is capable
of seeing--Individuality of brooks and their banks--The rippling
"burnie" of the hills--The gently-flowing brooks of low-lying
districts--Individualities even of such brooks--The fresh-water brooks
of Oxford and the tidal brooks of the Kentish marshes--The swarming life
in which they abound--An afternoon's walk--Ditches versus hedges and
walls--A brook in Cannock Chase--Its sudden changes of aspect--The
brooks of the Wiltshire Downs and of Derbyshire.
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