A Lesson From Oliver
Beginning of paper
Like any other morning I was up at four, the day Oliver met with his
violent death.
At four in the morning the grass is wet.
Now, it's still wet at 6 a.m. and even at seven, and these tend to
be the hours of choice for most people wishing to appreciate the phenomenon
of grass wetnes ....
Middle of paper
.... Along the eastern shores of the night-sky a splash of
colour would emerge. The all-night cricket band would reluctantly wane
under the first gentle reveille from those "early-birds" of epigram fame.
And then would come the most striking sensation of all: the smell of fresh
dew on the grass - I think the terms "exhilarating" and "intoxicating" were
coined by someone who'd just taken their first breath of northern morning
air (though they likely did so between 6 and 7 a.m. when one is b ....
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Word count: 13164
Page count: 48 (approximately 250 words per page)
