Gordon Stables
"Born to Wander"
"A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures"
Book One—Chapter One.
Grayling House, and the Wildery around it.
“It was, I ween, a lovely spot of ground,
Half-prankt with spring with sommer half imbrowned.”
Scene: An old baronial hall, showing grey over the woods near to the banks of a tributary of the silvery Tweed.
It wasn’t the month for the Michaelmas daisies, for it was November.