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Page 47
... woods and the path by the brook and the breezy wolds ever have been quite the same if his quaint figure had no longer appeared suddenly there . Many a time was I startled by the sudden apparition of Tom Peregrine when out shooting on ...
... woods and the path by the brook and the breezy wolds ever have been quite the same if his quaint figure had no longer appeared suddenly there . Many a time was I startled by the sudden apparition of Tom Peregrine when out shooting on ...
Page 315
... woods in the neighbourhood as contain an abundance of oak trees . The local name for these birds is " hic - wall , " which Tom Peregrine pronounces " heckle . " There is no more pleasing sound than the long , chattering note of the ...
... woods in the neighbourhood as contain an abundance of oak trees . The local name for these birds is " hic - wall , " which Tom Peregrine pronounces " heckle . " There is no more pleasing sound than the long , chattering note of the ...
Page 375
... woods just now , still , there is always the beauty of the trees . How marvellous is the symmetry of form and colouring in the trunk and branches of a big ash tree ! If you put mercury into a solution of nitrate of silver , and leave ...
... woods just now , still , there is always the beauty of the trees . How marvellous is the symmetry of form and colouring in the trunk and branches of a big ash tree ! If you put mercury into a solution of nitrate of silver , and leave ...
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