By Bruce Chatwin
still, the twins’ world—a few sq. miles of Welsh countryside—is wealthy within the oddities, the wonders, and the tragedies of the human event. during this outstanding novel Bruce Chatwin has captured each nuance of the Welsh panorama and of the lives and souls of the folk who lived there.
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Example text
Catch me! ' His shouts echoed through the wood. He saw her. He lost her. He stumbled again and fell flat.
After a mad chase round the orchard, they cornered Hoggage by the hen-house and carried him squealing to the dingle. Lewis held him, while Benjamin wetted his finger and planted a cross above his snout. But though they dosed Hoggage with worm-powders, though they stuffed him with stolen cake, and though Hoggage made up for his smallness with an amenable personality - to the extent of letting the twins take rides on his back - Hoggage remained a runt; and Amos had no use for runts. One morning in November, Sam Went to the mealshed for barley and found his son sharpening the blade of a meat-cleaver.
From January to April the snow never melted off the hill and the frozen leaves of foxgloves drooped like dead donkeys' ears. Every morning she peered from the bedroom window to see if the larches were black or crisped with rime. The animals were silent in the deep cold, and the chatter of her sewing machine could be heard as far as the lambing paddock. She made cretonne curtains for the four-poster and green plush curtains for the parlour. She cut up an old red flannel petticoat and made a rag rug, of roses, to go in the kitchen hearth.
