Description
Little Rivers is a classic collection of nature stories by Henry van Dyke containing the following titles: Prelude — Little rivers — A leaf of spearmint — Ampersand — A handful of heather — The ristigouche from a horse-yacht — Alpenrosen and goat’s milk — Au large — Trout-fishing in the Traun — At the sign of the balsam bough — A song after sundown — The wood-notes of the veery. A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own, and is as full of good fellowship as a sugar-maple is of sap. It can talk in various tones, loud or low, and of many subjects, grave and gay. Under favourable circumstances it will even make a shift to sing, not in a fashion that can be reduced to notes and set down in black and white on a sheet of paper, but in a vague, refreshing manner, and to a wandering air that goes “Over the hills and far away.”
