The entertainment at the wedding will be new and extraordinary; it is to be kept in a meadow near the village where the bride lives.
He has taken a fancy to get the meadow shaded with boughs, that are to cover it like an arbour, so that the sun will have much ado to peep through, and visit the green grass underneath.
For she had lands, both meadow and lea, Where the sun shines fair on Carlisle wall, And he swore her death, ere he would see A Scottish knight the lord of all.
Th' Ratcliffes 'ud hev been off to th' Low Meadow i' a twinkling, if I knaw owt.
And while he lazied there, a milking-song came clear and crisp from over the wall that hid the High meadow from him.
She'll bring him trouble yet, as sure as I shall mow th' Low Meadow by and by.
A green meadow or prairie extended around us for some miles in every direction, dotted with villas and haciendas, and relieved by occasional patches of cultivation, and avenues and clusters of the beautiful shade willow.
Meanwhile the shadows of the pine trees had slowly swung around until they crossed the road, and their trunks barred the open meadow with gigantic parallels of black and yellow.
Stick your bill into my tunnel as far as it will go," Master Meadow Mouse suggested.
And he dived out of the old oak straight at Master Meadow Mouse.
I came to take a swim," Master Meadow Mouse explained.
It seems as if I were always moving," Master Meadow Mouse mused.
And every night he joined the big Meadow Mouse family in a frolic.
In spite of all those enemies, Master Meadow Mouse managed to enjoy life in Farmer Green's meadow.
Illustration] [Illustration] 9 Miss Snooper MOSES MOUSE, who lived in the farmhouse, had warned Master Meadow Mouse.
And when it caught at his house and bore it downstream Master Meadow Mouse held his fat sides and roared.
When he rustled the dried cornstalks the third time, Master Meadow Mouse had cried right out in his sleep.
But you haven't a pole," Master Meadow Mouse pointed out.
And Master Meadow Mouse thought he had an odd glitter in his snapping eyes.
When they left the woodpile Master Meadow Mouse left it too.
I remember finding a meadow lark suspended from a barbed-wire fence several years ago, dead, its throat pierced by one of the sharp barbs.
Then the clear, ringing whistles through midsummer sound up and down the meadow from one quail to another.
I remember the old Arab fisherman, who was camped with his family in a black tent on a meadow where several lively brooks came in (one of them large enough to turn a mill).
The meadow is probably the prettiest spot in the entire park.
Beyond this mountain meadow are great fields of disintegrated granite, broken cubes of pink rock, so vast in extent that they might well be the ruins of all the ancient cities in the world.
Then take this little ring to him," said Benjamin Meadow Mouse, handing over the ring which he had just found in his piece of birthday cake, as I told you in the last story.
Go down to themeadow by the River Sippi, and then up a little hill, on the top of which stands a tiny house.
But of course everybody except Benjamin Meadow Mouse was disappointed, which tells you right away who got the ring.
Then what do you suppose little Benjamin Meadow Mouse said?
Provisions were cached at frequent intervals all the way up from the sea, but in the open meadow beneath the thousand-foot wall an immense supply depot had sprung up.
At any rate, Titus Oldways lived here in Greenley Street; and he owned the Aspen Street house, and another over in Meadow Place, and another in Field Court.
Had she looked at all, you would have thought She need not have been so quickly caught, For the long red bushy fox's tail, Swept over the meadow like a trail.
No thought had they that in after time, The Muse would echo their deeds in rhyme; So gayly doffing light stocking and shoe, They tripped o'er the meadow all dappled in dew.
Later when I returned to camp, one of the packers informed me that for an hour or two before a yearling ram had been feeding in the meadow with the pack animals, close to the camp.
They divided the field-mouse amongst them, and though none of them were hungry it was fun to eat out there in the open meadow with the blue sky overhead, and the warm wind ruffling their fur.
Before them lay the sunny breadth of the country, a meadow and a stream, a field, and far away the dark edge of a shady wood.
So we sat down in a meadow where there was a stream in the ditch and ate the "snack.
The ambush was the wood on top of the little hill, between Randall's ten-acre meadow and Sugden's Waste Wake pasture.
No manure is used, except farm-pen and gypsum; the former is generally applied to Indian corn and meadow land.
Mid the tall meadow grass the ox reclined, Or bent his knee, or from beneath the shade Of the broad beech, with ruminant mouth, gazed forth.
If I were you," said Dan pointedly, "I would go and sit in the meadow for a bit, and keep very still until it is time to go home.
Its free step claims every meadow that is glad with flowers; its bubbling spirits fill the cup of wide horizons and drip down their brims; its thankfulness is the prayer that takes possession of the sun by day and the stars by night.
Behind it was meadow land reaching all the way to Mr. Norton's.
In a meadow and near the roadside stood a deserted cabin, which had been struck several times during the skirmish by shells.
The pursuers hunted about the house and, of course, didn't find him; but presently one of them saw him crossing a meadow not far off, so they ran toward him and hailed him.
He's gone to the meadow to get in some hay, but he left white Charlie harnessed in the yard; I saw him fasten him to the chain, after he drove you up from the cars.
It is always very wet in the meadow beyond Thornton place.
