Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922 / 2008-07-25 00:00:00
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[Illustration: DEAD MAN'S PLACK.]
DEAD MAN'S PLACK
AND
AN OLD THORN
BY W. H. HUDSON
1920
LONDON & TORONTO
J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.
New York: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
CONTENTS
DEAD MAN'S PLACK:
Preamble
Chapter
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
AN OLD THORN:
Chapter
I.
II.
III.
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DEAD MAN'S PLACK
HAWTHORN AND IVY, NEAR THE GREAT RIDGE WOOD
DEAD MAN'S PLACK
PREAMBLE
"The insect tribes of human kind" is a mode of expression we are
familiar with in the poets, moralists and other superior persons, or
beings, who viewing mankind from their own vast elevation see us all
more or less of one size and very, very small. No doubt the comparison
dates back to early, probably Pliocene, times, when some one climbed to
the summit of a very tall cliff, and looking down and seeing his fellows
so diminished in size as to resemble insects, not so gross as beetles
perhaps but rather like emmets, he laughed in the way they laughed then
at the enormous difference between his stature and theirs.
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