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... readers over London with my parents and country cousin ; because they probably have , or can procure , many little volumes full of informa- tion on city affairs . Perhaps they will feel surprised , and even merry , when they find , that ...
... readers over London with my parents and country cousin ; because they probably have , or can procure , many little volumes full of informa- tion on city affairs . Perhaps they will feel surprised , and even merry , when they find , that ...
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... readers by making a story of my visit , which indeed lasted many years ; for I was eventually placed with these my relations , at Peak Hall , to ac- quire the farming business ; nor shall I make them merry , by telling all the ...
... readers by making a story of my visit , which indeed lasted many years ; for I was eventually placed with these my relations , at Peak Hall , to ac- quire the farming business ; nor shall I make them merry , by telling all the ...
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... readers and myself , by giving the information , either in the way I first obtained it , or in the form I now possess it , as the case may require . I shall begin by describing the Farm - house and premises . 66 Peak Hall , or as the ...
... readers and myself , by giving the information , either in the way I first obtained it , or in the form I now possess it , as the case may require . I shall begin by describing the Farm - house and premises . 66 Peak Hall , or as the ...
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... ostriches . They are cow - cribs , and contain winter fodder for cattle . We shall be extremely happy to shew any of our readers over the farm , and to ask them in doors , whenever they may honour us with a Cow-houses, Piggeries, &c.
... ostriches . They are cow - cribs , and contain winter fodder for cattle . We shall be extremely happy to shew any of our readers over the farm , and to ask them in doors , whenever they may honour us with a Cow-houses, Piggeries, &c.
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... it is ; and I think the whole farm does fair credit to the skill and management of master and men : - but I must stop here ; for if I boast much , I shall remind my readers 20 SIZE OF GABLESIDES FARM . Size of Gablesides Farm.
... it is ; and I think the whole farm does fair credit to the skill and management of master and men : - but I must stop here ; for if I boast much , I shall remind my readers 20 SIZE OF GABLESIDES FARM . Size of Gablesides Farm.
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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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