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forest border and casting shadows upon the road, 

 and now receding in order to open glades of Fern 

 and Heather to floods of sunshine and to reveal 

 purple vistas from out of which gleam the crowded 

 berries of the Hawthorn. Then, as we near our 

 journey's end the way is straight, bordered by 

 grassy strips, with glades on either hand of Gorse 

 and Brake fronting their background of Oak and 

 Birch and Beech. "We soon reach the little bridge 

 of the Boldre Water, and, crossing it once more, 

 it is sunset as we quickly walk into the village of 

 Brockenhurst. 



