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... Fields - The Cots- wold Dialect - How to Talk It - An Ancient Ballad -Tom Peregrine Recites - Roger Plowman's Ex- cursion - An Expensive Luncheon - Oxtail Soup- " The Turmut Hower . " CHAPTER V. • 98 ON THE WOLDS Varied Amusements ...
... Fields - The Cots- wold Dialect - How to Talk It - An Ancient Ballad -Tom Peregrine Recites - Roger Plowman's Ex- cursion - An Expensive Luncheon - Oxtail Soup- " The Turmut Hower . " CHAPTER V. • 98 ON THE WOLDS Varied Amusements ...
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... Fields - Hedgerow Flowers - The Brookside - By " the Pill " -Remarks on Gray — A Fine Piece of Miniature Scenery - The Cricket Ground - The Book of Nature - At the Ford- Habits of Observation - In the Conyger Wood- The Home of the ...
... Fields - Hedgerow Flowers - The Brookside - By " the Pill " -Remarks on Gray — A Fine Piece of Miniature Scenery - The Cricket Ground - The Book of Nature - At the Ford- Habits of Observation - In the Conyger Wood- The Home of the ...
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... field reminds us of him who wrote those lilting stanzas long , long ago . " Ah , happy hills ! ah , pleasing shade ! Ah , fields , beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood strayed , A stranger yet to pain : I feel the gales ...
... field reminds us of him who wrote those lilting stanzas long , long ago . " Ah , happy hills ! ah , pleasing shade ! Ah , fields , beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood strayed , A stranger yet to pain : I feel the gales ...
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... fields and stately elm trees . On the right the Chiltern Hills are seen in the background , and Wittenham Clump ... fields , and the same old - fashioned farmhouses and gabled cottages . But now we have entered the grand old Berkshire ...
... fields and stately elm trees . On the right the Chiltern Hills are seen in the background , and Wittenham Clump ... fields , and the same old - fashioned farmhouses and gabled cottages . But now we have entered the grand old Berkshire ...
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... fields and the same old hedges still remain only we do not appreciate them as much as did the author of " Westward Ho ! " Steventon , that lovely village with its gables and thatched roofs , its white cottage walls set with beams of ...
... fields and the same old hedges still remain only we do not appreciate them as much as did the author of " Westward Ho ! " Steventon , that lovely village with its gables and thatched roofs , its white cottage walls set with beams of ...
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