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Part the First — Winter Chapter I Mellstock-Lane
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To dwellers1 in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob2 and moan no less distinctly than they rock; the holly3 whistles as it battles with itself; the ash hisses4 amid its quiverings; the beech5 rustles6 while its flat boughs7 rise and fall. And winter, which modifies the note of such trees as shed their leaves, does not destroy its individuality.
On a cold and starry8 Christmas-eve within living memory a man was passing up a lane towards Mellstock Cross in the darkness of a plantation9 that whispered thus distinctively11 to his intelligence. All the evidences of his nature were those afforded by the spirit of his footsteps, which succeeded each other lightly and quickly, and by the liveliness of his voice as he sang in a rural cadence12:
“With the rose and the lily
And the daffodowndilly,
The lads and the lasses a-sheep-shearing go.”
The lonely lane he was following connected one of the hamlets of Mellstock parish with Upper Mellstock and Lewgate, and to his eyes, casually13 glancing upward, the silver and black-stemmed birches with their characteristic tufts, the pale grey boughs of beech, the dark-creviced elm, all appeared now as black and flat outlines upon the sky, wherein the white stars twinkled so
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dwellers
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beech
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distinctively
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densely
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eldest
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