Download or read book The Borderland of Country Life (Classic Reprint) written by Augusta Larned and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Borderland of Country Life The most attractive road in the town is the road that leads away from it. It holds the mystery of far horizons. It is the road of wayfarers, nature lovers and children. The tramp finds a home on that road, and it holds a lure in the pleasant days of the year even for case-hardened devotees of stone pavements, and the over-civilized. The majority of us live in the borderland of the country, for the town still works its spell in the midst of fields and gardens. We go abroad occasionally to gaze on the strange and wonderful, we return home to find rest and peace in the near and familiar. Every country, however plain and featureless, will appear beautiful to us if we have the seeing eye, the hearing ear, and the loving heart. We shall need no high priest of nature other than a real country boy, who, if we make friends with him, will reveal to us interesting things we never knew, or have forgotten, for the country boy is the first and oldest devotee of the "good out-of-doors." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.