The Whistler at the Plough: Containing Travels, Statistics, and Descriptions of Scenery & Agricultural Customs in Most Parts of England, with Letters from Ireland : Also "Free Trade and the League;" a Biographic History, Volume 1J. Ainsworth, 1852 - Free trade |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 22
... ground which he had hoed looked like an old pasture , or a piece of moor - land newly paired of its turf . The weeds were in seed also , and fully ripe , and he was mingling them as effectually as he could with the soil for the ruin of ...
... ground which he had hoed looked like an old pasture , or a piece of moor - land newly paired of its turf . The weeds were in seed also , and fully ripe , and he was mingling them as effectually as he could with the soil for the ruin of ...
Page 33
... ground . His Lordship lets them have wood for fuel cheap , and for those who are too poor to bring turf fuel from a common some miles off , he sends his carts to fetch it . Mrs Moore and some of the Shaftesbury family have established a ...
... ground . His Lordship lets them have wood for fuel cheap , and for those who are too poor to bring turf fuel from a common some miles off , he sends his carts to fetch it . Mrs Moore and some of the Shaftesbury family have established a ...
Page 39
... ground , and not on Earl Nelson's , but it was decided otherwise ; that he ( the convict ) was kept nineteen months at Portsmouth after trial , and then shipped off for Bermuda ; that he served the full term of his sentence there , at ...
... ground , and not on Earl Nelson's , but it was decided otherwise ; that he ( the convict ) was kept nineteen months at Portsmouth after trial , and then shipped off for Bermuda ; that he served the full term of his sentence there , at ...
Page 46
... . Attached to it is about four log of garden ground . Two or three pecks of potatoes , and about eighty cabbage plants , is as much as this garden would bear in a season . Would it not be advisable to 46 THE WHISTLER AT THE PLOUGH .
... . Attached to it is about four log of garden ground . Two or three pecks of potatoes , and about eighty cabbage plants , is as much as this garden would bear in a season . Would it not be advisable to 46 THE WHISTLER AT THE PLOUGH .
Page 66
... ground opposite , it appeared to me lovely beyond all other towns which I ever saw . All was brightened by the morning sun , each window winking in his face , each house and garden looking after the rain , like a child that had been in ...
... ground opposite , it appeared to me lovely beyond all other towns which I ever saw . All was brightened by the morning sun , each window winking in his face , each house and garden looking after the rain , like a child that had been in ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acres agriculture Ballinamuck ben't Berwickshire better bread called Castlebar cattle Clonmel conacre corn corn-law cottages crops cultivation district Dorset draining Dungarvan Earl East Lothian ejectment employed England English expense farm farmers field garden gentleman give grass hand heard horses improved Ireland Irish keep Kilkenny labourers land landlord landowners League lease Limerick live London look Lord Lord John Russell Lordship Lothian manufactures manure Mayo meadows meal ment miles neighbours never oats once paid parish park Parliament persons pigs plough political poor population potatoes present produce profit railway Rathkeale rent rich road Scotland seen sheep shew shillings shillings a-week side Sir Robert Sir Robert Peel Sligo soil squire tell tenantry tenants things tion told town trade trees turnips village wages wheat workhouse young