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... hundred of me at book or business ; and that she knew I had not sense enough to drive a calf to market . To make the matter worse , my own parents assented to the truth of this , with a sigh ; and it was finally arranged that Philip ...
... hundred of me at book or business ; and that she knew I had not sense enough to drive a calf to market . To make the matter worse , my own parents assented to the truth of this , with a sigh ; and it was finally arranged that Philip ...
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... hundred and nine , iron knobs ; it has an iron grating , about six inches square , through which to parley with strangers after night- fall ; and it swings on hinges , reaching the whole width of the door . The sides of the porch have ...
... hundred and nine , iron knobs ; it has an iron grating , about six inches square , through which to parley with strangers after night- fall ; and it swings on hinges , reaching the whole width of the door . The sides of the porch have ...
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... hundred and forty square yards make one square acre , and that each side of that space will therefore be about sixty - nine yards and a half long . Each acre contains four roods , each rood forty poles , and each pole rather more than ...
... hundred and forty square yards make one square acre , and that each side of that space will therefore be about sixty - nine yards and a half long . Each acre contains four roods , each rood forty poles , and each pole rather more than ...
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... hundred loads ; five stacks of wheat - corn ; two of clover - hay ; a bean - stack or two ; a faggot - stack ; and a tolerably large stack of straw . Towards the north the cattle - yard is fenced by a halm , or stubble - wall , which ...
... hundred loads ; five stacks of wheat - corn ; two of clover - hay ; a bean - stack or two ; a faggot - stack ; and a tolerably large stack of straw . Towards the north the cattle - yard is fenced by a halm , or stubble - wall , which ...
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... hundred acres out of the four hundred . The rest is pasture , meadow , wood , or waste , including roads and paths . I may say , without untruth or vanity , that our arable shews as good a tilth , and our grass land as good a sward , as ...
... hundred acres out of the four hundred . The rest is pasture , meadow , wood , or waste , including roads and paths . I may say , without untruth or vanity , that our arable shews as good a tilth , and our grass land as good a sward , as ...
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୪ ୪ ୪ Abbot's ancient animals Author balusters barley barn better Brook Field bundles called caraway cattle chiefly Children cloth clover coloured common COMMON WHEAT CORIANDER corn crop cultivated earth Edition employed England farm farmer feet Field FIORIN flax flowers fork Frontispiece Gablesides grain granary grass ground half-bound hand harvest hedge and ditch hemp hide HISTORY hops horses hundred acres Illustrations inclosures ISAAC TAYLOR John Harris kind labour land London machine machine presses manure ment milk mole-catcher morocco nature nearly oats pasture perennial plant performed persons Philip plant plough Price principal produce purpose quantity require roots scarcely season seed sheep shew shining season side soil sometimes sort sown stack stalks STORIES straw teasels things threshing tillage tion Upshire usually vegetable weather wheat whilst WHITE CLOVER winter wood yard young
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