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Page 71
... once more to the honest Cotswold labourer . Occasionally a notice is put up in the village as follows : - " There will be a dinner in the manor grounds on July- Please bring knives and forks . " These are great occasions in a Cotswold ...
... once more to the honest Cotswold labourer . Occasionally a notice is put up in the village as follows : - " There will be a dinner in the manor grounds on July- Please bring knives and forks . " These are great occasions in a Cotswold ...
Page 76
... once let " ambition mock their useful toil , " once their sober wishes learn to stray , how would the necessary drudgery of agricultural work be accom- plished at all ? In spite , however , of this marked characteristic of inertness ...
... once let " ambition mock their useful toil , " once their sober wishes learn to stray , how would the necessary drudgery of agricultural work be accom- plished at all ? In spite , however , of this marked characteristic of inertness ...
Page 114
... once the rampart of an ancient British town ; though , save in the tangled copse hard by , where the plough has never been at work , it is fast disappearing . Many a stone lying about the camp bears unmistakable marks of fire . A glance ...
... once the rampart of an ancient British town ; though , save in the tangled copse hard by , where the plough has never been at work , it is fast disappearing . Many a stone lying about the camp bears unmistakable marks of fire . A glance ...
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