The particles they detach are formed into a kind of paste or paper: in time they will quite honeycomb a pole.

The third side of the pond shelved to the 'leaze,' that the cattle might drink.

From it a narrow track went across the broad field up the rising ground to the distant gateway leading to the meadows, where they grazed on the aftermath.

Marching day by day, one after the other in single file, to the drinking-place, the hoofs of the herd had cut a clean path in the turf, two or three inches deep and trodden hard.

The reddish soil thus exposed marked the winding line athwart the field, through the tussocky bunches.
By the pond stood a low three-sided merestone or landmark, the initials on which were hidden under moss.