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... seasons clustered round the porch , - to you all these things will have their charm as long as you live . Therefore , if these pages appeal not to some such , it will not be the subject that is wanting , but the ability of the writer ...
... seasons clustered round the porch , - to you all these things will have their charm as long as you live . Therefore , if these pages appeal not to some such , it will not be the subject that is wanting , but the ability of the writer ...
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... season a score of fish are often taken in the day by one rod , and that the method of taking them is by the artificial fly , well dried and deftly floated over feeding fish . These Cotswold streams are fed at intervals of about half a ...
... season a score of fish are often taken in the day by one rod , and that the method of taking them is by the artificial fly , well dried and deftly floated over feeding fish . These Cotswold streams are fed at intervals of about half a ...
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... season of the year , though the hoar frost or a touch of snow will transform a whole village into fairyland at a moment's notice . Then the trout stream , which at other seasons of the year is a never failing attraction , running as it ...
... season of the year , though the hoar frost or a touch of snow will transform a whole village into fairyland at a moment's notice . Then the trout stream , which at other seasons of the year is a never failing attraction , running as it ...
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... seasons of the year trout stream is a wonderfully interesting and instructive thing . TO THE COLN . Flow on , clear , fresh trout stream , emblem of purity and perfect truth ; thou hast accomplished a mighty work , thou hast a mighty ...
... seasons of the year trout stream is a wonderfully interesting and instructive thing . TO THE COLN . Flow on , clear , fresh trout stream , emblem of purity and perfect truth ; thou hast accomplished a mighty work , thou hast a mighty ...
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... seasons and times , and the decline and birth of dynasties , and the changing of the face of the earth , and of the limits of the sea , maintains its sculptured shapeliness for a time insuperable , connects forgotten and following ages ...
... seasons and times , and the decline and birth of dynasties , and the changing of the face of the earth , and of the limits of the sea , maintains its sculptured shapeliness for a time insuperable , connects forgotten and following ages ...
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Ablington ancient ash tree beautiful Berkshire Bibury birds Burford BURFORD PRIORY charm Chedworth church Cirencester Coln colour Cotswold district Cotswold Hills Cotswold labourer Cotswold sheep Cotswold village cottages covert cricket delight district doubtless earth England face Fairford farmers fields fish garden glorious Gloucestershire grass ground half hamlet hand hounds hundred hunting keeper larvæ look lovely Lunnon manor house may-fly miles never night Northleach old manor house old-fashioned once partridges pass Peregrine pheasant pleasant plough pounds river River Coln Roman Sairy Jane sausingers scent season seen shooting silvery song sport sportsman spring squire stand Stoke Poges stone Stow-on-the-Wold stwuns summer tell thou Tom Peregrine town trees trout stream turmut vale valley walk walls week whilst wild wind woods yards