First in the Field; A Story of New South Wales
First in the Field; A Story of New South Wales
By George Manville Fenn
19 Nov, 2019
“I say, don’t, Green: let the poor things alone!”
“You mind your own business. Oh! bother the old thorns!”
Brian Green snatched his hand out of the quickset hedge into which he had thrust it, to reach the rough outside of a nest built
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“I say, don’t, Green: let the poor things alone!”
“You mind your own business. Oh! bother the old thorns!”
Brian Green snatched his hand out of the quickset hedge into which he had thrust it, to reach the rough outside of a nest built by a bird, evidently in the belief that the hawthorn leaves would hide it from sight, and while they were growing the thorns would protect it from mischievous hands.
But the leaves opened out slowly that cold spring, and a party of boys from Dr. Dunham’s school, the Friary, Broadhurst, Kent, was not long in spying out the unlucky parents’ attempt at house-building and nursery. Less