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Excerpt from Flower-O-the Corn <p>So, with these words ringing in his ears, and in his heart a great willingness to follow his Chief's precepts, Maurice Raith took his way without the bounds of the camp. It was harvest time, which in that country happens in the high ood-tide of the July heats. All Flanders and Picardy were veritable Fields of the Cloth of Gold, in which blue blouses swung and swayed, and scythes ashed circlewise in the high bold sunshine. <p>It was thus that he first saw her, blue and white among the gold, and ever after in his heart of hearts he called her, like those others, flower-o'-the-corn. Common folk in England call a certain gay, laughing, defiant bloom Cornower. In France little chil dren leap up and shout aloud, Bluet! Bluet when they catch sight of it. For it is a precious thing to them. And Maurice Raith, who in answering my lord's letters had a genius for finding the right word. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.