Chapter 20 In Danger Chapter 21 A Voyage Chapter 22 Discoveries Chapter 23 Strange Things Chapter 24 Fiery Vapours Chapter 25 The Shepherds Chapter 26 Bow and Arrow Chapter 27 Surprised Chapter 28 For Aurora Part I The Relapse into Barbarism CHAPTER I THE GREAT FOREST Return to Contents Return to Contents The old men say their fathers told them that soon after the fields were left to themselves a change began to be visible. It became green everywhere in the first spring, after London ended, so that all the country looked alike. The meadows were green, and so was the rising wheat which had been sown, but which neither had nor would receive any further care. Such arable fields as had not been sown, but where the last stubble had been ploughed up, were overrun with
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