hill

One night, it might be large plains with rolling hills.

“Now, as to the location of the chicken coop...proceed out the main door of the school, over the rise of the hill, down a short pebbled path, then make a left at the shrubbery....”

It was not edelweiss, of course, for edelweiss is not native to England, but it was close enough to make Penelope’s thoughts gain force and speed, like a velocipede flying down a hill.

About one hundred yards up that hill ran the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway tracks, where black and navy-blue trains with a yellow Cheshire cat painted on them rumbled through town twice daily, morning and evening.

Many were shot by snipers, positioned on hills surrounding the city.