Anne Louise Averyさんのイラストまとめ

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High on the Downs was Old Fox, looking far across the woods & the greening fields & the hedges blithe with May blossom, all the way to the sea, where the kittiwakes wheeled over the cliffs. I hope, he said to the wind, I hope, he said to the rain, I hope, he said to the sun.

A flyaway lace dress the colour of Canterbury Bells for a long summer night of broken stars & jewelled caddis houses in hidden silvery brooks & bright eyed frogs singing the summer in from their damp, muddy stones praying, o praying so hard, for a change in their fortunes.

Pouring rain & the Sea Otter was making tea on the oil stove in his boat. On the cabin table were three unusual additions. A jam jar full of faded bluebells, a fancy new tin of expensive Turkish cigarettes & a small seascape, wild with salt-spray & lashed wave.

Braemar. The damp, midgy August of 1881. Robert Louis Stevenson, exhausted, spitting blood, was housebound, but, sparked by the detailed vision of a map, he began to write a new book – Treasure Island. Read my essay on this & other piratical matters here: https://t.co/NGpQX9qYwz

Old Fox had received a card from Grand-cub, who was with his mother in Bristol. It read 'Happy May Day, Grandpapa!' & there was a drawing of Old Fox & Grand-cub on a hill eating a pink cake with bright red cherries. Old Fox wiped his eyes & put it carefully on the Parlour mantle.

May Day
Randolph Caldecott (1846–1886)
Manchester Art Gallery

Late afternoon & Wolf was showing a tired Pine Marten the shells he had collected on the beach that morning. Spindle shells & sting winkles, netted dog whelks & Baltic tellins & wentletraps like strange spiral staircases made of sea bone. You can have 'em all, said Wolf, gruffly.

Mouse and her mother were reading romances & nibbling Bakewell Tart. They were both exhausted by the worries of the Great Sickness & needed an escape. Mouse's book was about a German countess forced to become a housemaid in Worthing & her mother's concerned a reformed highwayman.

Kasamatsu Shirō (笠松 紫浪; 1898-1991)
Evening Rain, Shinobazu Pond, 1938.