When I was four years old, as I well remember, I was brought from Boston to this my native town, through these very woods and this
field, to the pond.
She chose to go to Stratford-on-Avon again, where she had gone before by mistake, for she remembered some grassy
fields on her former way towards it--fields among which she thought she might find just the sort of pool she had in her mind.
The huntsman standing in the hollow moved and loosed his borzois, and Nicholas saw a queer, short-legged red fox with a fine brush going hard across the
field. The borzois bore down on it....
For a week, the dark covering of the Otsego was left to the undisturbed possession of two eagles, who alighted on the centre of its
field, and sat eyeing their undisputed territory.
The two were walking in the
fields on a summer afternoon and had stopped to sit upon a grassy bank.
They, with two others below, formed the revolving Maltese cross of the reaping-machine, which had been brought to the
field on the previous evening to be ready for operations this day.
We reached the edge of the
field, where our ways parted.
"She was discovered in Moak's
fields, at the very foot of the tower of Moak," insisted he who had claimed her for Moak.
They regarded it as evidence of great confidence re- posed in them by their overseers; and it was on this account, as well as a constant desire to be out of the
field from under the driver's lash, that they es- teemed it a high privilege, one worth careful living for.
What the Queen said to them none of our travelers could understand, for it was in the mouse language; but the
field mice obeyed without hesitation, running one after the other to the Scarecrow and hiding themselves in the straw of his breast.
"At the
Field of Wonders, at sunrise tomorrow morning."
The corn which had been sowed in the
field over the field-mouse's home grew up high into the air, and made a thick forest for the poor little girl, who was only an inch high.