Fred (host, reader)

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Undertow: Familiar Haunts · The Green Book, Part 1 · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

So I sat down on the grass and thought, what should I do next?

I was tired, and my feet were hot with walking, and as I looked around, I saw there was a wonderful well just under the high, steep wall of grass.

All the ground round it was covered with bright green dripping moss.

There was every kind of moss there, moss like beautiful red ferns, and like palms and fir trees, and it was all green as jewelry, and drops of water hung on it like diamonds,

And in the middle was the great well, deep and shining and beautiful, so clear that it looked as if I could touch the red sand at the bottom, but it was far below.

I stood by it and looked in, as if I were looking in a glass.

At the bottom of the well, in the middle of it, the red grains of sand were moving and stirring all the time, and I saw how the water bubbled up, but at the top it was quite smooth, and full and brimming.

It was a great well, large like a bath, and with the shining, glittering green moss about it, it looked like a great white jewel with green jewels all around.

My feet were so hot and tired that I took off my boots and stockings and let my feet down into the water.

And the water was soft and cold.

And when I got up, I wasn't tired anymore, and I felt I must go on.

farther and farther and see what was on the other side of the wall.

I climbed up it very slowly, going sideways all the time, and when I got to the top and looked over, I was in the strangest country that I had seen.

Stranger even than the hill of the Grey Rocks.

It looked as if earth children had been playing there with their spades, as it was all hills and hollows and castles and walls made of earth and covered with grass.

There were two mounds, like big beehives, round and great and solemn, and then hollow basins, and then a steep mountain wall, like the ones I saw once by the seaside.

Side where the big guns and soldiers were.

I nearly fell into one of the round hollows.

It went away from under my feet so suddenly and ran fast down to the side and stood at the bottom when looked up.

It was strange and solemn to look up.

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