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Hill Figure
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From the first chapter of 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' by Thomas Hughes (1857)Right down below the White Horse is a curious deep and broad gully called "the Manger," into one side of which the hills fall with a series of the most lovely sweeping curves, known as "the Giant's Stairs." They are not a bit like stairs, but I never saw anything like them anywhere else, with their short green turf, and tender bluebells, and gossamer and thistle-down gleaming in the sun and the sheep-paths running along their sides like ruled lines. Online at Project Gutenburg
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/tbssd10.txt
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Posted by Rhiannon
22nd June 2005ce
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