Life in the Greenwood [antikvár]

LIFE IN THE GREENWOOD Seven hundred and more years ago the length and breadth of merry England was covered with great forests and stretches of woodland which men called the greenwood. Back of every village and town lay this beautiful green wood, with its tall trees and its green glades and leafy nooks. Every farm reached away into it and every highway was cut through it. When men had cleared their farms and built their highways, still there were acres and acres, and miles and miles of wilderness into whose wooded depths no man had penetrated, and through whose tangled underbrush only the wild deer had ever made their way. And many a man who wearied of his sober calling and of the restraints of life in town, where the magistrates had made so many petty laws that no