Description
Although willow trees, weeping willow trees, genus Salix babylonica (in case any botanist is listening), spring from the earth, there is something unearthly about them. This was the first profound observation in an exhaustive and exhausted one-man study made recently. It was discovered also that they provide atmosphere. Many writers have made good use of a stout willow; some use them as trapezes for school skipping farm boys in blue jeans, characters Iike Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn; several use them as an aid or receptacle for hiding passionate love letters, lockets, charms; many, for background in murder mysteries, and still others as property of ye ole Southe'n mansions, mansions that figure largely in the winning of the Civil War, Scarlet's last stand, etc.
Recommended Citation
Hancock, R.
(1947)
"The Wistful Fable Of The Willows Of Willow Lane,"
Manuscripts: Vol. 15
:
Iss.
3
, Article 11.
Retrieved from:
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/manuscripts/vol15/iss3/11
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