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Identifier: blackmorecountry00snelrich (find matches)
Title: The Blackmore country
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Snell, F. J. (Frederick John), 1862-
Subjects: Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge), 1825-1900 Devon (England)
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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eyed. But from each soft resting-place there spranga ring of greenest grass, which flourished andgrew year by year ; and within those safe en-closures the Pixies danced on moonlight nightsin peace and security, unharmed by the demonrout, who were never seen aboveground afterthat memorable morning. So you see that kindhearts and actions do not go unrewarded, evenin other spheres than our own. And so, concluded Jan, thats my storyabout the building of the Pixies camp ; and wisefolk may talk for a year and a day withoutmaking me believe that theres any other reasonfor fairy rings, at all events, hereabouts inExmoor Forest. Of course it would have been absolute cruelty,after so fanciful a legend, to have instilled anybotanical ideas into Jans head, with regard tothe law of the circular increase of fungi and thelike; so we left him alone in his glory, andfelt duly thankful for the pleasure he had givenus. Lower down the river is Landacre Bridge,where Jeremy Stickles had so narrow an escape
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THE HEART OF THE MOOR 129 from flood and foeman (Lonia Doone, chapterxlvii.), and lower down still is the moorlandvillage of Withypool. In summer, the water-meadows here, with background of brown moor,are lovely, but in rainy seasons Withypool is awet place indeed, the little streams being evenmore to be dreaded that the raging of the Barleand Kennsford Water. In passing through thevillage a few years ago, I happened to hear thatthere are five wise men of Withypool, whose nameswere mentioned to me. One, I believe, was afollower of St Crispin, whom his neighbours, onaccount of his being at once long-headed andlittle of stature, called, Torney Mouse. Here alsoresides the renowned Joe Milton, a championof the old wrestling days, in which he bore offmany a trophy. When the snow lies piled in impracticabledrifts on the main Exford road, the Simonsbathpeople creep round to Dulverton and the worldby way of Withypool. Let us proceed to thecapital of Exmoor by this route. As we do so,it may be

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