: The Girl's Own Paper Vol. VIII No. 355 October 16 1886 by Various Klickmann Flora Editor Peters Charles Active Editor - Children's literature Periodicals The Girls Own Paper

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Editor: Charles Peters Flora Klickmann

THE GIRL'S OWN PAPER

OCTOBER 16, 1886.

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THE BROOK AND ITS BANKS.

"Whyles owre a linn the burnie plays, As through the glen it dimpl't; Whyles round a rocky scaur it strays; Whyles in a weil it dimpl't; Whyles glittered to the nightly rays, Wi' bickering, dancing dazzle; Whyles cookit underneath the braes Below the spreading hazel."

The many aspects of a brook--The eye sees only that which it is capable of seeing--Individuality of brooks and their banks--The rippling "burnie" of the hills--The gently-flowing brooks of low-lying districts--Individualities even of such brooks--The fresh-water brooks of Oxford and the tidal brooks of the Kentish marshes--The swarming life in which they abound--An afternoon's walk--Ditches versus hedges and walls--A brook in Cannock Chase--Its sudden changes of aspect--The brooks of the Wiltshire Downs and of Derbyshire.

A brook has many points of view.

In the first place, scarcely any two spectators see it in the same light.

To the rustic it is seldom more than a convenient water-tank, or, at most, as affording some sport to boys in fishing. To its picturesque beauties his eyes are blind, and to him the brook is, like Peter Bell's primrose, a brook and nothing more.

Then there are some who only view a brook as affording variety to the pursuit of the fox, and who pride themselves on their knowledge of the spots at which it can be most successfully leaped.

Others, again, who are of a geographical turn of mind, can only see in a brook a necessary portion of the water-shed of the district.

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