Tussock

An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear.

Next morning I was off to Lochtully, which, as you know, is in the north of Perthshire. It stands three miles from the station, a great gray pinnacled house, with two towers cocking out above the fir woods, like a hare’s ears from a tussock of grass.

I yearned, painfully, for […] a sight and touch of a hillside covered with golden tussock.