Would you like some toast before bed, asked Old Fox. Yes, please, said Pine Marten. Old Fox buttered several rounds & brewed a pot of lemon balm tea & they sat out in the garden under the lilac, watching the dark clouds over Pooksdown Hill. Storm's coming, said Old Fox, not…

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The Great Wood, which lay beyond the stream at the bottom of Old Fox's garden, was hazed with bluebells, sudden and miraculous amongst the green, and that overcast afternoon, deep within the trees, a cuckoo sang.
Grey-blue-black as the spring clouds massing in the west, her…

An exquisite robe à transformation by the Parisian designer Jacques Doucet, heavily embroidered with a motif of drifting summer clouds and gold-winged bees, 1900-1905.
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A friendly greeting this morning from a very sweet little cow in her damp hawthorny field.

A friendly greeting this morning from a very sweet little cow in her damp hawthorny field.

I would like to call my Papa on the telephone today, said Wolf at breakfast. Old Fox stopped eating his porridge and came to sit next to Wolf & poured him a very large cup of cocoa with an extra sugar lump.
And he explained, as he did every couple of months, that Wolf's father…

The Broker had gone to write at Miss Rabbit's tea rooms. He sat outside, under the roses & pondered what Wolf had said the other day about Emily Dickinson - she wrote on scraps, chocolate wrappers, telegram slips, torn old scrumples. Words are heavier on the slights, see.

How many were lost from your form, asked the Broker suddenly, as they were having their after-dinner gaspers. Most, perhaps four of us left. You? All, said the Broker, all but me. I try not to think about it, really, but sometimes, you know. Yes, I know, said the Doctor, I know.

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