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Page 103
... roads as it appears when you are in the fields . The man who prefers the high road had better not live in the Cotswolds ; for these roads , mended as they are with limestone in the more remote parts of the district , become terribly ...
... roads as it appears when you are in the fields . The man who prefers the high road had better not live in the Cotswolds ; for these roads , mended as they are with limestone in the more remote parts of the district , become terribly ...
Page 131
... road ; the hounds are there- fore laid on in a grass field , and feather across it in an uncertain sort of way . This gives an opportunity to a sportsman who has just arrived by the road to proclaim that " as usual they are hunting ...
... road ; the hounds are there- fore laid on in a grass field , and feather across it in an uncertain sort of way . This gives an opportunity to a sportsman who has just arrived by the road to proclaim that " as usual they are hunting ...
Page 329
... road , and ensconce himself among some laurels near the manor house . He was so easily seen where he lay in the shrubbery that a crowd of villagers stood watching him from the road . He knew the hounds would not draw this place , as it ...
... road , and ensconce himself among some laurels near the manor house . He was so easily seen where he lay in the shrubbery that a crowd of villagers stood watching him from the road . He knew the hounds would not draw this place , as it ...
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