JUST FERN
The hillsides are brown and parched, but here and there are glimpsed patches of verdant green. This is fern. It raises its prickly green leaves in some cases nine feet above the ground, and looks soft and springy In the sunlight Have you ever knelt down and looked between the slender redbrown stalks of the fern or bracken? It Is really a beautiful sight. Then it it fun to crawl through the stalks, and the only fly in the ointment is the red powder which gets in your eyes, your nose, your mouth, and smothers your clothes. In autumn the fern dies down turning a brick-red. It is beautiful then, but one does not want to tell a farmer fern is beautiful. It spreads quickly, covering up his grass and even if burned off it springs up quickly. But even if the farmers do wage war against this courageous, hardy plant perhaps it isnt hypocrisy for a farmer’s daughter to tdmli.it. _ LADY JOCELm Robinson’s Bay.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21656, 14 December 1935, Page 6 (Supplement)
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