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... fields such as Potters , Pot Kiln , Kiln Lane , and the like , show where it has been used and exhausted ; and several The fields still full of ups and downs have been JANUARY 5.
... fields such as Potters , Pot Kiln , Kiln Lane , and the like , show where it has been used and exhausted ; and several The fields still full of ups and downs have been JANUARY 5.
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Charlotte Mary Yonge. The fields still full of ups and downs have been thus used within this half century . long thatched sheds where the yellow bricks , being dried before the kiln burns them red , show where the present workings lie ...
Charlotte Mary Yonge. The fields still full of ups and downs have been thus used within this half century . long thatched sheds where the yellow bricks , being dried before the kiln burns them red , show where the present workings lie ...
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... fields where food was provided for them , and rare birds appeared -alas ! only to be shot by the unscrupulous . It must be more individual character than the species that gives ascendency among birds . At one 22 AN OLD WOMAN'S OUTLOOK.
... fields where food was provided for them , and rare birds appeared -alas ! only to be shot by the unscrupulous . It must be more individual character than the species that gives ascendency among birds . At one 22 AN OLD WOMAN'S OUTLOOK.
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... field . Is it true that they kill one another in the autumn ? I used to be told so in my youth and thought it a romance ; but like other traditions , rejected in the pride . of one's younger days , I find cause for believing that ' tis ...
... field . Is it true that they kill one another in the autumn ? I used to be told so in my youth and thought it a romance ; but like other traditions , rejected in the pride . of one's younger days , I find cause for believing that ' tis ...
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... fields , which once on a spring day two of us found a quagmire of thick clay . It was full on our way home ; we tried creeping along the hedge sides , but slipped off , one of us plunging over both ankles , the other over one ; so that ...
... fields , which once on a spring day two of us found a quagmire of thick clay . It was full on our way home ; we tried creeping along the hedge sides , but slipped off , one of us plunging over both ankles , the other over one ; so that ...
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