My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 28
... never to come there no more ! " was perhaps the favourite , and whenever I heard it or read it in after years , the picture always in my mind was of the door- step of the Usk cottage with the kittens and the viper in the attitudes so ...
... never to come there no more ! " was perhaps the favourite , and whenever I heard it or read it in after years , the picture always in my mind was of the door- step of the Usk cottage with the kittens and the viper in the attitudes so ...
Page 33
... the wheel passed swiftly under a low arch , and this was a sight that never palled upon us , so that almost every fine day , as we VOL . I. D passed this way home from school , we gave a III ] 33 HERTFORD : HOME OF MY BOYHOOD.
... the wheel passed swiftly under a low arch , and this was a sight that never palled upon us , so that almost every fine day , as we VOL . I. D passed this way home from school , we gave a III ] 33 HERTFORD : HOME OF MY BOYHOOD.
Page 36
... never palled . But this was only one part of this delightful kind of peep- show . A little way off an equally novel and still more com- plex operation was always going on , accompanied by strange noises always dear to the young ...
... never palled . But this was only one part of this delightful kind of peep- show . A little way off an equally novel and still more com- plex operation was always going on , accompanied by strange noises always dear to the young ...
Page 40
... never heard , as it was certainly not suited for horse - racing , though admirably adapted for boyish games and sports . When the boarders of the Grammar School came here , usually accompanied by some of the day - scholars and in charge ...
... never heard , as it was certainly not suited for horse - racing , though admirably adapted for boyish games and sports . When the boarders of the Grammar School came here , usually accompanied by some of the day - scholars and in charge ...
Page 41
... never found one myself I did not think more of it . Just over the boundary wall of our school playground , and continuing along the side of the churchyard , and then across the fields for a long distance southward , was a dry ...
... never found one myself I did not think more of it . Just over the boundary wall of our school playground , and continuing along the side of the churchyard , and then across the fields for a long distance southward , was a dry ...
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