I parted the ferny screen, and there on the top of the small knoll was the nest with two half-fledged young.
Through my ferny screen I saw them—two redcoats in British uniform disputing on the road not ten paces from my shelter.
Through the fog Jim could see glimpses of the ferny undergrowth, the giant tree-ferns and cycads that towered aloft.
This side was pretty, too, though there were no rocks nor ferny coves.
Why did the world consist of any thing else but Tudor palaces in ferny parks, or time be other than a perpetual Holy Week?
