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Mushrooms on the Moor By: Frank Boreham (1871-1959) |
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MUSHROOMS ON THE MOOR by F. W. BOREHAM Author of
'Mountains in the Mist,'
'The Other Side of the Hill,'
'The Golden Milestone,'
'The Silver Shadow,'
'The Luggage of Life,'
'Faces in the Fire,' etc., etc. The Abingdon Press
New York Cincinnati First American Edition Printed May, 1919
Reprinted August, 1919; May, 1920; July 1921
CONTENTS
PART I CHAP. I. A SLICE OF INFINITY
II. READY MADE CLOTHES
III. THE HIDDEN GOLD
IV. 'SUCH A LOVELY BITE!'
V. LANDLORD AND TENANT
VI. THE CORNER CUPBOARD
VII. WITH THE WOLVES IN THE WILD
VIII. DICK SUNSHINE
IX. FORTY!
X. A WOMAN'S REASON
PART II I. THE HANDICAP
II. GOG AND MAGOG
III. MY WARDROBE
IV. 'PITY MY SIMPLICITY!'
V. TUNING FROM THE BASS
VI. A FRUITLESS DEPUTATION
VII. TRAMP! TRAMP! TRAMP!
VIII. THE FIRST MATE
PART III CHAP. I. WHEN THE COWS COME HOME
II. MUSHROOMS ON THE MOOR
III. ONIONS
IV. ON GETTING OVER THINGS
V. NAMING THE BABY
VI. THE MISTRESS OF THE MARGIN
VII. LILY
BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION I have allowed the Mushrooms on the Moor to throw the glamour of their
name over the entire volume because, in some respects, they are the
most typical and representative things in it. They express so little
but suggest so much! What fun we had, in the days of auld lang syne,
when we scoured the dewy fields in search of them! And yet how small a
proportion of our enjoyment the mushrooms themselves represented! Our
flushed cheeks, our prodigious appetites, and our boisterous merriment
told of gains immensely greater than any that our baskets could have
held. What a contrast, for example, between mushrooms from the moor on
the one hand and mushrooms from the market on the other! What memories
of the soft summer mornings; the fresh and fragrant air; the diffused
and misty sunshine; the sparkle of the dew on the tall wisps of
speargrass; the beaded and shining cobwebs; the scamper, barefooted,
across the glittering green! It was part of childhood's wild romance.
And, in the sterner days that have followed those tremendous frolics,
we have learned that life is full of just such suggestive things. As I
glance back upon the years that lie behind me, I find that they have
been almost equally divided between two hemispheres. But I have
discovered that, under any stars, There's part o' the sun in an apple;
There's part o' the moon in a rose;
There's part o' the flaming Pleiades
In every leaf that grows. And I shall reckon this book no failure if some of the ideas that I
have tried to suggest are found to point at all steadily to that
conclusion. FRANK W. BOREHAM. HOBART, TASMANIA,
JUNE, 1915.
PART I
I A SLICE OF INFINITY I Really, as I sit here in this quiet study, and glance round at the
books upon the shelves, I can scarcely refrain from laughing at the fun
we have had together. And to think of the way in which they came into
my possession! It seems like a fairy story or a chapter from romance.
If a man wants to spend an hour or so as delightfully as it is possible
to spend it, let him invite to his fireside some old and valued friend,
the companion of many a frolic and the sharer of many a sorrow; let him
seat his old comrade there in the place of honour on the opposite side
of the hearth, and then let them talk. 'Do you remember, Tom, the way
we met for the first time?' 'My word, I do! Shall I ever forget it?'
And Tom slaps his knee at the memory of it, and they enjoy a long and
hearty laugh together. It is not that the circumstances under which
they met were so ludicrous or dramatic; it is that they were so
commonplace. It seems, on looking back, the oddest chance in the world
that first brought them together, the merest whim of chance, the
veriest freak of circumstance; and yet how all life has taken its
colour and drawn its enrichment from that casual meeting! They
happened to enter the same compartment of a railway train; or they sat
next each other on the tramcar; or they walked home together from a
political meeting; or they caught each other admiring the same rose at
a flower show... Continue reading book >>
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