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Title: Our village
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855 Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919 Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920
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Publisher: London, New York : Macmillan and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Half the cows in the street. CopyrigJtt 1893 by Macmillan &■ Co. his Alderney—owe the best part of their maintenanceto blind Roberts industry. Here we are at the entrance of the cornfield whichleads to the dell, and which commands so fine aview of the Loddon, the mill, the great farm, with itspicturesque outbuildings, and the range of woody hillsbeyond. It is impossible not to pause a moment atthat gate, the landscape, always beautiful, is so suited
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Poor blind Robert. THE DELL m to the season and the hour,—so bright, and gay, andspring-Hke. But May, who has the chance of anotherrabbit in her pretty head, has galloped forward to thedingle, and poor May, who follows me so faithfully inall my wanderings, has a right to a little indulgence inhers. So to the dingle we go. At the end of the field, which when seen from theroad seems terminated by a thick dark coppice, wecome suddenly to the edge of a ravine, on one sidefringed with a low growth of alder, birch, and willow,on the other mossy, turfy, and bare, or onl\^ broken bybright tufts of blossomed broom. One or two oldpollards almost conceal the winding road that leadsdown the descent, by the side of which a spring asbright as crystal runs gurgling along. The dell itselfis an irregular piece of broken ground, in some partsvery deep, intersected by two or three high banks ofequal irregularity, now abrupt and bare, and rock-like, now crowned with tufts of the feather) \\ill()wor mag

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