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... Ground - A " Pretty " Ball - Charles Dickens on Cricket - Dumkins and Podder , Limited - How Dumkins Hit a " Sixer " -Downfall of " Podder " — Bourton - on - the - Water C.C. - A Plague of Wasps- The Treatment of Cricket Grounds - The ...
... Ground - A " Pretty " Ball - Charles Dickens on Cricket - Dumkins and Podder , Limited - How Dumkins Hit a " Sixer " -Downfall of " Podder " — Bourton - on - the - Water C.C. - A Plague of Wasps- The Treatment of Cricket Grounds - The ...
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... - 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 Kingfisher - A Limestone Quarry -The.
... - 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 Kingfisher - A Limestone Quarry -The.
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... grounds . What a glorious carpet of gold is spread over these meadows when the buttercups are in full bloom ! Now comes Pangbourne , with its lovely weir , where the big Thames trout love to lie . Pangbourne used to be one of the ...
... grounds . What a glorious carpet of gold is spread over these meadows when the buttercups are in full bloom ! Now comes Pangbourne , with its lovely weir , where the big Thames trout love to lie . Pangbourne used to be one of the ...
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... ground . For not without much hard toil and sweat of brow did our forefathers erect these monuments of " a day that ... grounds , only a few paces from the manor house . This is the village club . Here squire , farmer , and labourer are ...
... ground . For not without much hard toil and sweat of brow did our forefathers erect these monuments of " a day that ... grounds , only a few paces from the manor house . This is the village club . Here squire , farmer , and labourer are ...
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... grounds hard by the brook . He informed me that there was bagatelle at the club for those who liked it , and all sorts of games , and smoking concerts : that it was a question who was the best bagatelle player in the club ; but that it ...
... grounds hard by the brook . He informed me that there was bagatelle at the club for those who liked it , and all sorts of games , and smoking concerts : that it was a question who was the best bagatelle player in the club ; but that it ...
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