Well, the
wood people are a happy folk and very well satisfied with themselves."
Once upon a time there was a piece of
wood. It was not an expensive piece of
wood.
Influenced by those remarks, the bird next morning refused to bring in the
wood, telling the others that he had been their servant long enough, and had been a fool into the bargain, and that it was now time to make a change, and to try some other way of arranging the work.
But I caught her up, and in spite of her struggles, plunged boldly before me into the
wood. For a little way the glare of my fire lit the path.
'Good woman,' he said to her, 'can you not show me the way out of the
wood?'
She skimmed along over the tree-tops until she saw an open place in the middle of the
wood, where the trees and brushwood had been cleared.
Sometimes I heard four or five at once in different parts of the
wood, by accident one a bar behind another, and so near me that I distinguished not only the cluck after each note, but often that singular buzzing sound like a fly in a spider's web, only proportionally louder.
East and West and North and South, Wash thy hide and close thy mouth.(Pit and rift and blue pool-brim, Middle-Jungle follow him!)
Wood and Water, Wind and Tree, Jungle-Favour go with thee!
Alone or with other boys he went every afternoon into the
woods to gather nuts.
"Up there is the rabble of the
wood, continued she, pointing to several laths which were fastened before a hole high up in the wall; "that's the rabble; they would all fly away immediately, if they were not well fastened in.
Some hundred paces farther along the edge of the
wood stood Mitka, the count's other groom, a daring horseman and keen rider to hounds.
"The spruce
wood over the brook," said Anne in a whisper.