My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 34
... boys of all ages , was our favourite bathing - place , where , not long after our coming to Hertford , I was very nearly being drowned . It was at a place called Willowhole , where those who could swim a little would jump in , and in a ...
... boys of all ages , was our favourite bathing - place , where , not long after our coming to Hertford , I was very nearly being drowned . It was at a place called Willowhole , where those who could swim a little would jump in , and in a ...
Page 38
... boys , no doubt , was , that in some way chalk was the natural and universal substance of which the earth consisted , the only question being how deep you must go to reach it . All this country was thickly dotted with woods and coppices ...
... boys , no doubt , was , that in some way chalk was the natural and universal substance of which the earth consisted , the only question being how deep you must go to reach it . All this country was thickly dotted with woods and coppices ...
Page 39
... boys than the more culti- vated districts to the north and west . Walking along the London Road , in about a mile and a half we reached Hertford Heath at a height of three hundred feet above the sea , and half a mile further was ...
... boys than the more culti- vated districts to the north and west . Walking along the London Road , in about a mile and a half we reached Hertford Heath at a height of three hundred feet above the sea , and half a mile further was ...
Page 42
... boys dine in the grand dining - hall , where the old - world style of everything was of great interest . At the ringing of an outside bell the boys , 250 in all , came in , and seated them- selves at the long rows of tables . Then one ...
... boys dine in the grand dining - hall , where the old - world style of everything was of great interest . At the ringing of an outside bell the boys , 250 in all , came in , and seated them- selves at the long rows of tables . Then one ...
Page 43
... boy in the pulpit read a chapter from the Bible , and at the end there was another grace and hymn . All was carried out with great regularity and very little noise , and the crowds of brightly clad boys , who had red leather belts over ...
... boy in the pulpit read a chapter from the Bible , and at the end there was another grace and hymn . All was carried out with great regularity and very little noise , and the crowds of brightly clad boys , who had red leather belts over ...
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