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The stream is as good as at first the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Good
Streams
Easily
Moved
Away
Littles
Turnings
Little
Collects
Firsts
Rubbish
First
Stream

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