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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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A Devonshire lane. Photograph by A. W. Cutler. She is Devonshire to the backbone, andif you suggest, as I did one day, that herstrawberry jam, reminds you of some oneelses strawberry jam, which was so par-ticularly delicious as to almost mark anepoch in your life as an epicure, she willhumph and remark that the makermust have been a Devonshire woman. The information as to the amount ofbutter she makes is, also, typically Devon- shire. Zumtimes morn others, she sayswith an air of complete finality. Hillscott is too far away from the cen-ters for Mrs. Hodges to sell milk as somefarms do for an average price of ten pence(twenty cents) a gallon. Nor has she fol-lowed the lead of some of her more up-to-date neighbors in the matter of cream.Butter is the sole product of Hillscott dairyfor the market, butter made under the 685
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A Day with a Devonshire Farmer 687 scrupulously clean and sweet conditions es-sential to the old-fashioned tub-and-hand method of butter making, which still persiststhroughout the greater part of the county. On market day in the nearest town threemiles away, the narrow streets, edged byplain two-story structures faced with ayellowish-white composition of stone andcement, are filled with cattle and with theusual open-air stalls. In the BrindleCow, the local hostelry, are gathered atdinner a score or more of local worthies andfarmers from round-about gossiping of com-ing auctions and — after the grog, whichis always part of the two-shilling dinner—of local personalities and small talk andthe little scandals that agitate the mindsof these thrifty and honest people. Thecompany is presided over by the popularauctioneer, who is many other things aswell, and who punctuates the remarks ofhis associates with a genial Well done,or No doubt. And they, in the flushof uttering unusually long s

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