Jane Austen, Northanger AbbeyIt was a fine, clear evening in mid-October, about six weeks later. Althoughleaves remained on the beeches5 and the sunshine was warm, there was a sense ofgrowing emptiness over the wide space of the down. The flowers were sparser6.
Here and there a yellow tormentil showed in the grass, a late harebell or a fewshreds of purple bloom on a brown, crisping tuft of self-heal. But most of theplants still to be seen were in seed. Along the edge of the wood a sheet of wildclematis showed like a patch of smoke, all its sweet-smelling flowers turned to oldman's beard. The songs of the insects were fewer and intermittent7. Greatstretches of the long grass, once the teeming8 jungle of summer, were almostdeserted, with only a hurrying beetle9 or a torpid10 spider left out of all the myriadsof August. The gnats12 still danced in the bright air, but the swifts that had swoopedfor them were gone and instead of their screaming cries in the sky, the twitteringof a robin13 sounded from the top of a spindle tree. The fields below the hill were allcleared. One had already been plowed14 and the polished edges of the furrowscaught the light with a dull glint, conspicuous15 from the ridge16 above. The sky, too,was void, with a thin clarity like that of water. In July the still blue, thick ascream, had seemed close above the green trees, but now the blue was high andrare, the sun slipped sooner to the west and, once there, foretold17 a touch of frost,sinking slow and big and drowsy18, crimson19 as the rose hips20 that covered the briar.
As the wind freshened from the south, the red and yellow beech4 leaves raspedtogether with a brittle21 sound, harsher than the fluid rustle22 of earlier days. It was atime of quiet departures, of the sifting23 away of all that was not staunch againstwinter.
Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoyis feeling proof against it. For them there is no winter food problem. They havefires and warm clothes. The winter cannot hurt them and therefore increasestheir sense of cleverness and security. For birds and animals, as for poor men,winter is another matter. Rabbits, like most wild animals, suffer hardship. True,they are luckier than some, for food of a sort is nearly always to be had. But undersnow they may stay underground for days at a time, feeding only by chewingpellets. They are more subject to disease in winter and the cold lowers theirvitality. Nevertheless, burrows25 can be snug26 and warm, especially when crowded.
Winter is a more active mating season than the late summer and the autumn, andthe time of greatest fertility for the does starts about February. There are finedays when silflay is still enjoyable. For the adventurous28, garden-raiding has itscharms. And underground there are stories to be told and games to be played --bob-stones and the like. For rabbits, winter remains29 what it was for men in themiddle ages -- hard, but bearable by the resourceful and not altogether withoutcompensations.
On the west side of the beech hanger3, in the evening sun, Hazel and Fiver weresitting with Holly30, Silver and Groundsel. The Efrafan survivors31 had been allowedto join the warren and after a shaky start, when they were regarded with dislikeand suspicion, were settling down pretty well, largely because Hazel wasdetermined that they should.
Since the night of the siege, Fiver had spent much time alone and even in theHoneycomb, or at morning and evening silflay, was often silent and preoccupied32.
No one resented this -- "He looks right through you in such a nice, friendly way,"as Bluebell33 put it -- for each in his own manner recognized that Fiver was nowmore than ever governed, whether he would or no, by the pulse of that mysteriousworld of which he had once spoken to Hazel during the late June days they hadspent together at the foot of the down. It was Bigwig who said -- one eveningwhen Fiver was absent from the Honeycomb at story time -- that Fiver was onewho had paid more dearly than even himself for the night's victory over theEfrafans. Yet to his doe, Vilthuril, Fiver was devotedly35 attached, while she hadcome to understand him almost as deeply as ever Hazel had.
Just outside the beech hanger, Hyzenthlay's litter of four young rabbits wereplaying in the grass. They had first been brought up to graze about seven daysbefore. If Hyzenthlay had had a second litter she would by this time have leftthem to look after themselves. As it was, however, she was grazing close by,watching their play and every now and then moving in to cuff36 the strongest andstop him bullying37 the others.
"They're a good bunch, you know," said Holly. "I hope we get some more likethose.""We can't expect many more until toward the end of the winter," said Hazel,"though I dare say there'll be a few.""We can expect anything, it seems to me," said Holly.
"Three litters born in autumn -- have you ever heard of such a thing before?
Frith didn't mean rabbits to mate in the high summer.""I don't know about Clover," said Hazel. "She's a hutch rabbit: it may benatural to her to breed at any time, for all I know. But I'm sure that Hyzenthlayand Vilthuril started their litters in the high summer because they'd had nonatural life in Efrafa. For all that, they're the only two who have had litters, asyet.""Frith never meant us to go out fighting in the high summer, either, if thatcomes to that," said Silver. "Everything that's happened is unnatural39 -- thefighting, the breeding -- and all on account of Woundwort. If he wasn't unnatural,who was?""Bigwig was right when he said he wasn't like a rabbit at all," said Holly. "Hewas a fighting animal -- fierce as a rat or a dog. He fought because he actually feltsafer fighting than running. He was brave, all right. But it wasn't natural; andthat's why it was bound to finish him in the end. He was trying to do somethingthat Frith never meant any rabbit to do. I believe he'd have hunted like the elil ifhe could.""He isn't dead, you know," broke in Groundsel.
The others were silent.
"He hasn't stopped running," said Groundsel passionately40. "Did you see hisbody? No. Did anyone? No. Nothing could kill him. He made rabbits bigger thanthey've ever been -- braver, more skillful, more cunning. I know we paid for it.
Some gave their lives. It was worth it, to feel we were Efrafans. For the first timeever, rabbits didn't go scurrying41 away. The elil feared us. And that was on accountof Woundwort -- him and no one but him. We weren't good enough for theGeneral. Depend upon it, he's gone to start another warren somewhere else. Butno Efrafan officer will ever forget him.""Well, now I'll tell you something," began Silver. But Hazel cut him short.
"You mustn't say you weren't good enough," he said. "You did everything forhim that rabbits could do and a great deal more. And what a lot we learned fromyou! As for Efrafa, I've heard it's doing well under Campion, even if some thingsaren't quite the same as they used to be. And listen -- by next spring, if I'm right,we shall have too many rabbits here for comfort. I'm going to encourage some ofthe youngsters to start a new warren between here and Efrafa; and I think you'llfind Campion will be ready to send some of his rabbits to join them. You'd be justthe right fellow to start that scheme off.""Won't it be difficult to arrange?" asked Holly.
"Not when Kehaar comes," said Hazel, as they began to hop38 easily back towardthe holes at the northeast corner of the hanger. "He'll turn up one of these days,when the storms begin on that Big Water of his. He can take a message toCampion as quickly as you'd run down to the iron tree and back.""By Frith in the leaves, and I know someone who'll be glad to see him!" saidSilver. "Someone not so very far away."They had reached the eastern end of the trees and here, well out in the openwhere it was still sunny, a little group of three young rabbits -- bigger thanHyzenthlay's -- were squatting42 in the long grass, listening to a hulking veteran,lop-eared and scarred from nose to haunch -- none other than Bigwig, captain ofa very free-and-easy Owsla. These were the bucks43 of Clover's litter and a likely lotthey looked.
"Oh, no, no, no, no," Bigwig was saying. "Oh, my wings and beak45, that won'tdo! You -- what's your name -- Scabious -- look, I'm a cat and I see you down atthe bottom of my garden chewing up the lettuces47. Now, what do I do? Do I comewalking up the middle of the path waving my tail? Well, do I?""Please, sir, I've never seen a cat," said the young rabbit.
"No, you haven't yet," admitted the gallant48 captain. "Well, a cat is a horriblething with a long tail. It's covered with fur and has bristling49 whiskers and when itfights it makes fierce, spiteful noises. It's cunning, see?""Oh, yes, sir," answered the young rabbit. After a pause, he said politely, "Er --you lost your tail?""Will you tell us about the fight in the storm, sir?" asked one of the otherrabbits, "and the tunnel of water?""Yes, later on," said the relentless50 trainer. "Now look, I'm a cat, right? I'masleep in the sun, right? And you're going to get past me, right? Now then--""They pull his leg, you know," said Silver, "but they'd do anything for him."Holly and Groundsel had gone underground and Silver and Hazel moved outonce more into the sun.
"I think we all would," replied Hazel. "If it hadn't been for him that day, thedog would have come too late. Woundwort and his lot wouldn't have been aboveground. They'd have been down below, finishing what they'd come to do.""He beat Woundwort, you know," said Silver. "He had him beat before the dogcame. That was what I was going to say just now, but it was as well I didn't, Isuppose.""I wonder how they're getting on with that winter burrow24 down the hill," saidHazel. "We're going to need it when the hard weather comes. That hole in the roofof the Honeycomb doesn't help at all. It'll close up naturally one day, I suppose,but meanwhile it's a confounded nuisance.""Here come the burrow-diggers, anyway," said Silver.
Pipkin and Bluebell came over the crest51, together with three or four of thedoes.
"Ah ha, ah ha, O Hazel-rah," said Bluebell. "The burrow's snug, it hath beendug, t'is free from beetle, worm and slug. And in the snow, when down we go--""Then what a lot to you we'll owe," said Hazel. "I mean it, too. The holes areconcealed, are they?""Just like Efrafa, I should think," said Bluebell. "As a matter of fact, I broughtone up with me to show you. You can't see it, can you? No -- well, there you are. Isay, just look at old Bigwig with those youngsters over there. You know, if he wentback to Efrafa now they couldn't decide which Mark to put him in, could they?
He's got them all.""Come over to the evening side of the wood with us, Hazel-rah?" said Pipkin.
"We came up early on purpose to have a bit of sunshine before it gets dark.""All right," answered Hazel good-naturedly. "We've just come back from there,Silver and I, but I don't mind slipping over again for a bit.""Let's go out to that little hollow where we found Kehaar that morning," saidSilver. "It'll be out of the wind. D'you remember how he cursed at us and tried topeck us?""And the worms we carried?" said Bluebell. "Don't forget them."As they came near the hollow they could hear that it was not empty. Evidentlysome of the other rabbits had had the same idea.
"Let's see how close we can get before they spot us," said Silver. "Real Campionstyle -- come on."They approached very quietly, upwind from the north. Peeping over the edge,they saw Vilthuril and her litter of four lying in the sun. Their mother was tellingthe young rabbits a story.
"So after they had swum the river," said Vilthuril, "El-ahrairah led his peopleon in the dark, through a wild, lonely place. Some of them were afraid, but heknew the way and in the morning he brought them safely to some green fields,very beautiful, with good, sweet grass. And here they found a warren; a warrenthat was bewitched. All the rabbits in this warren were in the power of a wickedspell. They wore shining collars round their necks and sang like the birds andsome of them could fly. But for all they looked so fine, their hearts were dark andtharn. So then El-ahrairah's people said, 'Ah, see, these are the wonderful rabbitsof Prince Rainbow. They are like princes themselves. We will live with them andbecome princes, too.'"Vilthuril looked up and saw the newcomers. She paused for a moment andthen went on.
"But Frith came to Rabscuttle in a dream and warned him that that warren wasenchanted. And he dug into the ground to find where the spell was buried. Deephe dug, and hard was the search, but at last he found that wicked spell anddragged it out. So they all fled from it, but it turned into a great rat and flew at El-ahrairah. Then El-ahrairah fought the rat, up and down, and at last he held it,pinned under his claws, and it turned into a great white bird which spoke34 to himand blessed him.""I seem to know this story," whispered Hazel, "but I can't remember where I'veheard it."Bluebell sat up and scratched his neck with his hind53 leg. The little rabbitsturned round at the interruption and in a moment had tumbled up the side of thehollow, squeaking54 "Hazel-rah! Hazel-rah!" and jumping on Hazel from all sides.
"Here, wait a minute," said Hazel, cuffing55 them off. "I didn't come here to getmixed up in a fight with a lot of roughs like you! Let's hear the rest of the story.""But there's a man coming on a horse, Hazel-rah," said one of the youngrabbits. "Oughtn't we to run into the wood?""How can you tell?" asked Hazel. "I can't hear anything.""Neither can I," said Silver, listening with his ears up.
The little rabbit looked puzzled.
"I don't know how, Hazel-rah," he answered, "but I'm sure I'm not mistaken."They waited for some little time, while the red sun sank lower. At last, just asVilthuril was about to go on with the story, they heard hooves on the turf and thehorseman appeared from the west, cantering easily along the track towardCannon Heath Down.
"He won't bother us," said Silver. "No need to run: he'll just go by. You're afunny chap, though, young Threar, to spot him so far off.""He's always doing things like that," said Vilthuril. "The other day he told mewhat a river looked like and said he'd seen it in a dream. It's Fiver's blood, youknow. It's only to be expected with Fiver's blood.""Fiver's blood?" said Hazel. "Well, as long as we've got some of that I dare saywe'll be all right. But, you know, it's turning chilly56 here, isn't it? Come on, let's godown, and hear the rest of that story in a good, warm burrow. Look, there's Fiverover on the bank now. Who's going to get to him first?"A few minutes later there was not a rabbit to be seen on the down. The sunsank below Ladle Hill and the autumn stars began to shine in the darkening east-- Perseus and the Pleiades, Cassiopeia, faint Pisces and the great square ofPegasus. The wind freshened, and soon myriads11 of dry beech leaves were fillingthe ditches and hollows and blowing in gusts57 across the dark miles of open grass.
Underground, the story continued.
EpilogueHe did look farInto the service of the time, and wasDiscipled of the bravest: he lasted long,But on us both did haggish age steal on,And wore us out of act....
Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends WellHe was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass"And what happened in the end?" asks the reader who has followed Hazel andhis comrades in all their adventures and returned with them at last to the warrenwhere Fiver brought them from the fields of Sandleford. The wise Mr. Lockley hastold us that wild rabbits live for two or three years. He knows everything aboutrabbits: but all the same, Hazel lived longer than that. He lived a tidy fewsummers -- as they say in that part of the world -- and learned to know well thechanges of the downs to spring, to winter and to spring again. He saw more youngrabbits than he could remember. And sometimes, when they told tales on a sunnyevening by the beech trees, he could not clearly recall whether they were abouthimself or about some other rabbit hero of days gone by.
The warren prospered58 and so, in the fullness of time, did the new warren onthe Belt, half Watership and half Efrafan -- the warren that Hazel had firstenvisaged on that terrible evening when he set out alone to face GeneralWoundwort and try to save his friends against all odds59. Groundsel was the firstChief Rabbit; but he had Strawberry and Buckthorn to give him advice and he hadlearned better than to mark anyone or to order more than a very occasional WidePatrol. Campion readily agreed to send some rabbits from Efrafa and the firstparty was led by none other than Captain Avens, who acted sensibly and made avery good job of it.
General Woundwort was never seen again. But it was certainly true, asGroundsel said, that no one ever found his body, so it may perhaps be that, afterall, that extraordinary rabbit really did wander away to live his fierce lifesomewhere else and to defy the elil as resourcefully as ever. Kehaar, who wasonce asked if he would look out for him in his flights over the downs, merelyreplied, "Dat damn rabbit -- I no see 'im, I no vant I see 'im." Before many monthshad passed, no one on Watership knew or particularly cared to know whether hehimself or his mate was descended60 from one or two Efrafan parents or from noneat all. Hazel was glad that it should be so. And yet there endured the legend thatsomewhere out over the down there lived a great and solitary61 rabbit, a giant whodrove the elil like mice and sometimes went to silflay in the sky. If ever greatdanger arose, he would come back to fight for those who honored his name. Andmother rabbits would tell their kittens that if they did not do as they were told,the General would get them -- the General who was first cousin to the BlackRabbit himself. Such was Woundwort's monument: and perhaps it would nothave displeased62 him.
One chilly, blustery morning in March, I cannot tell exactly how many springslater, Hazel was dozing63 and waking in his burrow. He had spent a good deal oftime there lately, for he felt the cold and could not seem to smell or run so well asin days gone by. He had been dreaming in a confused way -- something about rainand elder bloom -- when he woke to realize that there was a rabbit lying quietlybeside him -- no doubt some young buck44 who had come to ask his advice. Thesentry in the run outside should not really have let him in without asking first.
Never mind, thought Hazel. He raised his head and said, "Do you want to talk tome?""Yes, that's what I've come for," replied the other. "You know me, don't you?""Yes, of course," said Hazel, hoping he would be able to remember his name ina moment. Then he saw that in the darkness of the burrow the stranger's earswere shining with a faint silver light. "Yes, my lord," he said, "Yes, I know you.""You've been feeling tired," said the stranger, "but I can do something aboutthat. I've come to ask whether you'd care to join my Owsla. We shall be glad tohave you and you'll enjoy it. If you're ready, we might go along now."They went out past the young sentry64, who paid the visitor no attention. Thesun was shining and in spite of the cold there were a few bucks and does at silflay,keeping out of the wind as they nibbled65 the shoots of spring grass. It seemed toHazel that he would not be needing his body any more, so he left it lying on theedge of the ditch, but stopped for a moment to watch his rabbits and to try to getused to the extraordinary feeling that strength and speed were flowinginexhaustibly out of him into their sleek66 young bodies and healthy senses.
"You needn't worry about them," said his companion. "They'll be all right --and thousands like them. If you'll come along, I'll show you what I mean."He reached the top of the bank in a single, powerful leap. Hazel followed; andtogether they slipped away, running easily down through the wood, where thefirst primroses67 were beginning to bloom.
Lapine GlossaryBob-stones A traditional game among rabbits.
Crixa, the The center of Efrafa, at the crossing point of two bridle68 paths.
Efrafa The name of the warren founded by General Woundwort.
El-ahrairah The rabbit folk hero. The name (Elil-hrair-rah) means"Enemies-Thousand-Prince" = the Prince with a Thousand Enemies.
Elil Enemies (of rabbits).
Embleer Stinking69, e.g. the smell of a fox.
Flay27 Food, e.g. grass or other green fodder70.
Flayrah Unusually good food, e.g. lettuce46.
Frith The sun, personified as a god by rabbits. Frithrah! = the lordSun -- used as an exclamation71.
Fu Inlé After moonrise.
Hlao Any dimple or depression in the grass, such as that formedby a daisy plant or thistle, which can hold moisture. The name of a rabbit.
Hlao-roo "Little Hlao." An affectionate diminutive72 of the name ofHlao, one of the rabbits in the story.
Hlessi A rabbit living above ground, without a regular hole orwarren. A wandering rabbit, living in the open. (Plural, hlessil.)Homba A fox. (Plural, hombil.)Hrair A great many; an uncountable number; any number overfour. U Hrair = The Thousand (enemies).
Hrairoo "Little Thousand." The name of Fiver in Lapine.
Hraka Droppings, excreta.
Hrududu A tractor, car or any motor vehicle. (Plural, hrududil.)Hyzenthlay Literally73, "Shine-dew-fur" = Fur shining like dew. Thename of a doe.
Inlé Literally, the moon; also moonrise. But a second meaningcarries the idea of darkness, fear and death.
Lendri A badger74.
Marli A doe. Also carries the meaning "mother."M'saion "We meet them."Narn Nice, pleasant (to eat).
Ni-Frith Noon.
Nildro-hain "Blackbird's Song." The name of a doe.
Owsla The strongest rabbits in a warren, the ruling clique75.
Owslafa The Council police (a word found only in Efrafa).
Pfeffa A cat.
Rah A prince, leader or chief rabbit. Usually used as a suffix76. E.g.
Threarah = Lord Threar.
Roo Used as a suffix to denote a diminutive. E.g. Hrairoo.
Sayn Groundsel.
Silf Outside, that is, not underground.
Silflay To go above ground to feed. Literally, to feed outside. Alsoused as a noun.
Tharn Stupefied, distraught, hypnotized with fear. But can also, incertain contexts, mean "looking foolish," or again "heartbroken" or "forlorn."Thethuthinnang "Movement of Leaves." The name of a doe.
Thlay Fur.
Thlayli "Fur-head." A nickname.
Threar A rowan tree, or mountain ash.
Vair To excrete, pass droppings.
Yona A hedgehog. (Plural, yonil.)Zorn Destroyed, murdered. Denotes a catastrophe77.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publishers, agents andother copyright holders78 for permission to reprint copyrighted material:
"The Witnesses," Copyright 1945 by W.H. Auden; reprinted from CollectedShorter Poems 1927-1957, by W.H. Auden, by permission of Random79 House, Inc.,and Faber and Faber Ltd.
The Ascent80 of F6 by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, Copyright 1936,1937 and renewed 1964 by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood; reprinted bypermission of Random House, Inc., and Curtis Brown, Ltd.
"The Pilgrim," "Dame81 Hickory," and "Napoleon" by Walter de la Marereprinted by permission of The Literary Trustees of Walter de la Mare82 and TheSociety of Authors as their representative.
"Two Fusiliers" from Fairies and Fusiliers by Robert Graves, Copyright ? 1917by Robert Graves. All rights reserved; reprinted by permission of Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc.
"Who's in the Next Room?" from Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy83, Copyright1925 by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.; reprinted by permission of MacmillanPublishing Co., Inc., Macmillan Co. of Canada Ltd., the Trustees of the HardyEstate and Macmillan, London and Basingstoke.
"Hurt Hawks," Copyright 1928 and renewed 1956 by Robinson Jeffers,reprinted from The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers by permission of RandomHouse, Inc.
"Fern Hill" from The Poems of Dylan Thomas, Copyright 1946 by NewDirections Publishing Corporation, reprinted by permission of New DirectionsPublishing Corporation, J.M. Dent52 & Sons Ltd., and the Trustees for theCopyrights of the late Dylan Thomas.
"A Woman Young and Old" from The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats,Copyright 1933 by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., renewed 1961 by BerthaGeorgia Yeats; reprinted by permission of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., M.B.
Yeats and Macmillan Co. of Canada Ltd.
Richard Adams is the author of many bestselling novels, includingWatership Down (1972), Shardik (1974), The Plague Dogs (1977), The Girl in aSwing (1980), Maia (1984), and Traveller (1988), as well as several works ofnonfiction, including his autobiographical The Day Gone By (1991). He and hiswife live in the south of England.
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