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The roots of the mountains. Pocket ed (1913)
The roots of the mountains Pocket ed - 1913 Author:William Morris Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Then went Face-of-god back to Burgstead again, and as he stood anigh the Thing-stead once more, and looked down on the Dale as he had beheld it last autumn, he b... more »ethought him that with all that had been done and all that had been promised, the earth was clearing of her trouble, and that now there was nought betwixt him and the happy days of life which the Dale should give to the dwellers therein, save the gathering hosts of the battle-field and the day when the last word should be spoken and the first stroke smitten. So he went down on to the Portway well content. Thereafter till the day of the Weapon-show there is nought to tell of, save that Dallach and the other wounded men began to grow whole again ; and all men sat at home, or went on the woodland ward, expecting great tidings after the holding of the Folk- mote. CHAPTER XXXI OF THE WEAPON-SHOW OF THE MEN OF BURGDALE AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS Now on the day appointed for the Weapon-show came the Folk flock-meal to the great and wide meadow that was cleft by Wildlake as it ran to join the Weltering Water. Early in the morning, even before sunrise, had the wains full of women and children begun to come thither. Also there came little horses and asses from the Shepherd country with one or two or three damsels or children sitting on each, and by wain-side or by beast strode the men of the house, merry and fair in their war-gear. The Woodlanders, moreover, man and woman, elder and swain and young damsel, streamed out of the wood from Carl- Vol. n B stead, eager to make the day begin before the sunrise, and end before his setting. Then all men fell to pitching of tents and tilting over of wains ; for the April sun was hot in the Dale, and when he arose the meads were gay with more than the spring flowers ; for the tents...« less