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Springhaven

CHAPTER X
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Joyful in the morning, because the sun was come again; joyful in the middle day to see how well the world went; and in the evening merry with the tricks of their own shadows.
Quite fifteen stepping-stones stepped up--if you counted three that were made of wood--to soothe the dignity of the brook in its last fresh-water moments, rather than to gratify the dry-skin'd soles of gentlefolk.

For any one, with a five-shilling pair of boots to terminate in, might skip dry-footed across the sandy purlings of the rivulet.

And only when a flood came down, or the head of some springtide came up, did any but playful children tread the lichened cracks of the stepping-stones.

And nobody knew this better than Horatia Dorothy Darling.
The bunnies who lived to the west of the brook had reconciled their minds entirely now to the rising of that boat among them.

At first it made a noise, and scratched the sand, and creaking things came down to it; and when the moon came through its ribs in the evening, tail was the quarter to show to it.


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