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IN PURSUIT OF SPRING

PADDINGTON CANAL.

“So far the life of men moving to and fro across the bridges was like the old life that I knew, though down below upon the sparkling waters many birds were alighting, or were already seated like wondrous blossoms upon the bulwarks of a barge painted in parrot colours red and green.”

IN PURSUIT OF
SPRING

BY
EDWARD THOMAS