Here are the quotations for next week, March 3rd to
9th:
1. ...They clawed, they
slapped, they fled, leaving behind them a trophy of banners and brasses crudely
arranged round the big drum. Then that end of the street also shut its windows,
and the village, stripped of life, lay round me like a reef at low tide...
2. ...he heard a sound as though all the
earth were humming. Then he ran as he had never run in his life before, spurned
aside one - two - three of the plies of stones into the dark sweet-smelling
gullies; heard a roar like the roar of the sea in a cave, saw with the tail of
his eye the air grow dark behind him ...
3. ...the old Queen cried the swarming cry, which to a bee of good blood
should be what the trumpet was to Job's war-horse. In spite of her immense age
it rang between the canyon-like frames as a pibroch rings in a mountain pass ...
and the broad-winged drones, burly and eager, ended it on one nerve-thrilling
outbreak of bugles: 'La Reine le veult ! Swarm ! Swar-rm ! Swar-r-rm
!'...
The sources of this week's quotations, Feb
24th to March 2nd, are as follows:
1. 'Have it as
you've a mind to,' he was saying, 'but the vivers of her roots they hold the
bank together...' This is from 'Hal 'o
the Draft' in 'Puck of Pook's Hill'
2. '...The brook she'd crep' up on us, an' she kep' creepin' upon us
till we was workin' knee deep in the shallers'... This is from 'Friendly Brook' in 'A Diversity of Creatures'.
3. ...'Twas hot an' windy for
weeks, an' the streets stinkin' o' dried 'orse-dung blowin' from side to side
an' lyin' level with the kerb...' This is
from 'The Wish House' in 'Debits and Credits'.
Good wishes to all, John R
