[Living Alone by Stella Benson]@TWC D-Link bookLiving Alone CHAPTER VII 13/51
She followed. On the other side of the archway the whole view of the plain called Higgins Farm met the adventurer.
The farm-buildings were heaped graciously together on a little wave in the sea of ploughed fields. Except for two pale ricks in their midst, they exactly matched their surroundings, they were plastered dark red, and thatched with very old green and brown thatch.
Beyond the buildings was a little wood, its interior lighted up with bluebells, and this wood merged into an orchard, where a white pony and an auburn pig strove apparently to eat the same blade of grass.
The various sections of the farm land lay mapped out in different intensities of brown, very young green, and maturer green, and each section was dotted with people.
They seemed small people even from a distance, and, as Sarah Brown advanced at the tail of the dragon, she saw that the workers were all indeed under ordinary human size.
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