by Leslie » March 13th, 2009, 2:20 am
I've been spotting a few motifs in Professor Kirke's house - like his apple tobacco holder on his desk, and the model of a horse in Peter and Edmund's bedroom that looks like Strawberry. I can't make out some of the carvings on the wardrobe door, though. There's the big tree in the middle, and a rising sun below it. Above the tree is something vaguely circular -- at first I thought it was a lion head, but now I don't think so. And the carvings at the side are hard to see clearly. On the left side I think I see the "wonderful bird" that was watching over the garden on the hill. Can anyone help me figure out the other carvings?
"What are you laughing at?"
"At myself. My little puny self," said Phillipa.
--Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede