The Dragon And The Raven: Or The Days Of King Alfred(Fiscle Part-3) by G. A. Henty (e book reading free TXT) 📕

A Low Hut Built Of Turf Roughly Thatched With Rushes
And Standing On The Highest Spot Of Some Slightly
Raised Ground. It Was Surrounded By A Tangled Growth
Of Bushes And Low Trees, Through Which A Narrow And Winding
Path Gave Admission To The Narrow Space On Which The
Hut Stood. The Ground Sloped Rapidly. Twenty Yards From
The House The Trees Ceased, And A Rank Vegetation Of Reeds
And Rushes Took The Place Of The Bushes, And The Ground
Became Soft And Swampy. A Little Further Pools Of Stagnant
Water Appeared Among The Rushes, And The Path Abruptly
Stopped At The Edge Of A Stagnant Swamp, Though The Passage
Could Be Followed By The Eye For Some Distance Among The
Tall Rushes. The Hut, In Fact, Stood On A Hummock In The
Midst Of A Wide Swamp Where The Water Sometimes Deepened
Into Lakes Connected By Sluggish Streams.