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 |
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... potatoes and gruel - no weavers with half potatoes and gruel — no weavers and others without work and without gruel ? Or is there not a wide - spread necessity among the millions of working people to cut with such caution at a loaf - to ...
... potatoes and gruel - no weavers with half potatoes and gruel — no weavers and others without work and without gruel ? Or is there not a wide - spread necessity among the millions of working people to cut with such caution at a loaf - to ...
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... potatoes and turnips carried daily into Edin- burgh - rent L.7 per acre . " 99 These are samples of what her Majesty saw , or might have seen , within a week of her visit to Taplow - these are the farms on which Mr Greg says there are ...
... potatoes and turnips carried daily into Edin- burgh - rent L.7 per acre . " 99 These are samples of what her Majesty saw , or might have seen , within a week of her visit to Taplow - these are the farms on which Mr Greg says there are ...
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... 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 .
... 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 .
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... potatoes ; Friday , four ounces of bread and a portion of the liquor which boiled the previous day's beef ; Saturday , one pound of potatoes and three ounces of bacon . Such is the diet of the workhouse . It is low , but , low as it is ...
... potatoes ; Friday , four ounces of bread and a portion of the liquor which boiled the previous day's beef ; Saturday , one pound of potatoes and three ounces of bacon . Such is the diet of the workhouse . It is low , but , low as it is ...
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... Potatoes ; there are more potatoes being turned up on the farms we pass , and I attempt to bring out the traveller in the drab great - coat , whose knees divide space with my knees , on the subject of potatoes . I find this gentleman ...
... Potatoes ; there are more potatoes being turned up on the farms we pass , and I attempt to bring out the traveller in the drab great - coat , whose knees divide space with my knees , on the subject of potatoes . I find this gentleman ...
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