Neighbourhood: A year's life in and about an English village — John Shaqi
Neighbourhood: A year's life in and about an English villageEdwardes, Tickner
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Neighbourhood: A year's life in and about an English village
Edwardes, Tickner
Country life -- England
Downs—River and Brook—The Long
White Road—A Mystery of
Rubies—The Thrush.
APRIL 82
I. Sunday Morning—The Black
Sheep—A Song in the Wood.
II. Rain and Shine—The
Wryneck—Bees and Primroses.
III. Fulfilment—The Martins—The
First
Cuckoo—Bluebells—Swallows and
Nightingales.
IV. April on Windle Hill—Downland
Larks.
MAY 104
I. Busy Times—The Forge—Two
Ancient Families—The
Sweetstuff Shop—Silent
Company—The Three Thatchers.
II. The Long Back-Reach—In the
Willow Bower—A New Song and an
Old Story.
III. Whitsunday—God’s House
Beautiful—The Soul-Shepherd.
IV. Ringing the Bees—An
old-fashioned Bee-Garden.
V. Corpus Christi: an Impression.
JUNE 132
I. The Old Brier-Bush—Chaffinch
and Willow-Wren—The
Mowing-Grass—The First Wild
Rose.
II. The Sheep-Wash.
III. Rainy Days—Old Times and
New—The Reverend’s
Garden—Darkie and his Den.
IV. The Cotter’s Saturday
Night—The Cricket
Committee—Summer Gloaming.
JULY 161
I. Summertide—The Teasel
Traps—Bees in the
Tares—Poppies and Wheat—The
Oat-field—Swifts.
II. The Cricket Match.
III. Time and the Town—The
Beginning of Harvest-Sport and
Nature—In the Seed-hay—The
Storm.
AUGUST 189
I. The Tea-Garden—In Search of
Change—The Trippers—A
Mysterious Company.
II. The South-west Wind—Talk on
the Downs—In the Combe—A
Reconciliation.
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