A Fool in the Forest by Anthony Pryde and R. K. Weekes 1928

A Fool in the Forest
Anthony Pryde
R. K. Weekes
New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1928
282 pages

The binding is weakening but in acceptable condition. The pages are clean but tanned. The cover is scuffed, toned and has edge wear. Good. Hardcover.

Chapter 1:  The Forest, as all good forest dwellers know, is not all oak, ash, and beech. Great tracts of it are moorland, pink in their season with heather, or yellow with gorse; there are hills and windy ridges of fir and pine; dangerous dark waterheads of bog where sundews grow, and myrtle, and the shining fluff of cottongrass; wide river-valleys, and hamlets set in orchards and water meadows, beneath tall pastoral spires. And in the very heart of the woodland itself there are lawns of turf as fine as nap and of an even greenness, tender blades free from the coarse growth of couch grass or even the rosette of a daisy--lawns that must be tended, one would think, by fairy hands, for no man mows them, and there are no sheep to crop them, and the foresters and woodcutters are too few to make much impression on the fresh growth of spring. 1.1  (#0000884)