Over Fen and WoldMacmillan and Company, limited, 1898 - 447 páginas |
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... Across the Fens - A strange world - Storm and sun- shine - An awkward predicament - Bourn - Birthplace of Hereward the Wake - A medieval railway station — Tombstone verses . ' 186 CHAPTER XI A pleasant road - Memories - Shortening of.
... Across the Fens - A strange world - Storm and sun- shine - An awkward predicament - Bourn - Birthplace of Hereward the Wake - A medieval railway station — Tombstone verses . ' 186 CHAPTER XI A pleasant road - Memories - Shortening of.
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... strange legend - Local proverbs - Chat with a " commercial " -A mission of destruction - The curfew - Lost our way - Out of the beaten track — A grot- esque figure and mysterious legend - Puzzling inscriptions -The end of a long day 226 ...
... strange legend - Local proverbs - Chat with a " commercial " -A mission of destruction - The curfew - Lost our way - Out of the beaten track — A grot- esque figure and mysterious legend - Puzzling inscriptions -The end of a long day 226 ...
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... strange land - Horse sold in a church - A sport of the past - Racing the moon ! -Facts for the curious- The Champions of England - Scrivelsby Court - Brush magic - Coronation cups - A unique privilege - A blunder- ing inscription - A ...
... strange land - Horse sold in a church - A sport of the past - Racing the moon ! -Facts for the curious- The Champions of England - Scrivelsby Court - Brush magic - Coronation cups - A unique privilege - A blunder- ing inscription - A ...
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... strange superstitions linger yet ; and last on the long list , and perhaps not least in interest , there was the wide Fenland , full of its own weird , but little understood beauties . Verily here was a tempting programme ! Pondering ...
... strange superstitions linger yet ; and last on the long list , and perhaps not least in interest , there was the wide Fenland , full of its own weird , but little understood beauties . Verily here was a tempting programme ! Pondering ...
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... strange room , to say nothing of the mellow glow of candles on the table where your meal is spread ! There is some- thing indescribably cheery and suggestive of comfort , cosiness , and taking your ease about a fire - warmed and candle ...
... strange room , to say nothing of the mellow glow of candles on the table where your meal is spread ! There is some- thing indescribably cheery and suggestive of comfort , cosiness , and taking your ease about a fire - warmed and candle ...
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abbey ancient antiquaries appeared artist Baldock beauty Biggleswade Brampton bridge Buckden building carved century charming church coaching inn colour cottages cross Crowland curious delightful drove England English exclaimed famous Fenland Fens garden ghost glance gray green hall haunted Hereward the Wake hills Horncastle horses hostelry Huntingdon imagined inscription interest journey land landlord landscape learnt Lincoln Lincolnshire London look manifestly medieval miles mind modern morning never night noticed old coaching once Ouse painted passed past Pepys photograph picture picturesque pleasant pleasure possibly pretty quaint quiet railway rector restorer river river Ivel road roof round ruined Samuel Pepys scenery Scrivelsby seemed Silk Willoughby sketch Sleaford Somersby Spilsby spot Stamford Stilton stone story strange stranger stream Swineshead thereof things told tower town traveller trees village walls Wansford Water Newton whilst wind Wolds wonder wood Woodhall Spa Wothorpe
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Página 154 - Give me the clear blue sky over my head and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner — and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths. I laugh, I run, I leap, I sing for joy.
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Página 259 - I am scornfully amused at your appeal to me, of all people in the world the precisely least likely to give you a farthing! My first word to all men and boys who care to hear me is " Don't get into debt. Starve and go to heaven, — but don't borrow. Try first begging, — I don't mind, if it's really needful, stealing! But don't buy things you can't pay for!