Excerpt from Moby Lane Spring has many ushers, and is heralded by divers signs. Some people look for these signs among the hedgerows; others seek them in the sky, or listen for them in the night, whilst other people neither look nor listen, but go smelling about, or stand on hill-tops, tasting. For my own part, I do not fatigue myself in this matter. I go about my lawful occasions with cold feet, smoking tobacco, avoiding clergymen, eating sausages, emitting letterpress. And sooner or later the Mobies come, wheeling in ...
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Excerpt from Moby Lane Spring has many ushers, and is heralded by divers signs. Some people look for these signs among the hedgerows; others seek them in the sky, or listen for them in the night, whilst other people neither look nor listen, but go smelling about, or stand on hill-tops, tasting. For my own part, I do not fatigue myself in this matter. I go about my lawful occasions with cold feet, smoking tobacco, avoiding clergymen, eating sausages, emitting letterpress. And sooner or later the Mobies come, wheeling in the spring wheeling it to my very door on an old perambulator. I then know for certain that spring has arrived. I then know for certain that there are black birds in the thicket, and tits among the gorse, and that cowslips, lady-smock, and the lyrical manner are in season. If anything happened to the Mobies and their old perambulator, I should have to fall back on my Daily Mail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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