 There is a little hop-garden in which I used to work when from eight to ten years old ; from which I have scores of times run to follow the hounds, leaving the hoe to do the best that it could to destroy the weeds ; but the most interesting thing was...  Cobbett's Weekly Register - Pàgina 19editat per - 1822Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Cobbett - 1822 - 432 pàgines
...a little hop- garden in which I used to work when from eight to ten years' old ; from which I have scores of times run to follow the hounds, leaving...brothers, used occasionally to desport ourselves, as the Lawyers call it, at this sand-hill. Our diversion was this : we used to go to the top of the... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1830 - 766 pàgines
...is a little hop-garden in which I used to work when from eight to ten years' old ; from which I have scores of times run to follow 'the hounds, leaving...the Weeds ; but the . most interesting thing was, a sand-kill, which goes from a p'art of the heath down to the rivulet. As a due mixture of pleasure with... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1835 - 236 pàgines
...is a little hop-garden in which I used to work when from eight to ten years old; from which I have scores of times run to follow the hounds, leaving...brothers, used occasionally to desport ourselves, as the lawyers call it, at this sand-hill. Our diversion was this: we used to go to the top of the... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1835 - 230 pàgines
...is a little hop-garden in which I used to work when from eight to ten years old ,' from which I have scores of times run to follow the hounds, leaving...destroy the weeds; but the most interesting thing was, a saud-hiil, which goes from a part of the heath down to the rivulet. As a due mixture ot pleasure with... | |
 | James Thorne - 1845 - 514 pàgines
..."education." After saying that he worked in a hop-garden here when from eight to ten years old, he goes on— "but the most interesting thing was a sand-hill, which...with toil, I, with two brothers, used occasionally to disport ourselves, as the lawyers call it, at this sand-hill. Our diversion was this : we used to go... | |
 | Matthias Cathrow Turner - 1857 - 256 pàgines
...place." He used to work in a hop garden hard by when a boy; and I can't resist giving his own words:—" But the most interesting thing was a sand-hill, which...with toil, I, with two brothers, used occasionally to disport ourselves, as the lawyers call it, at this sand-hill. Our diversion was this; we used to go... | |
 | Edward Smith - 1878 - 350 pàgines
...is a little hop-garden in which I used to work when from eight to ten years old ; from which I have scores of times run to follow the hounds, leaving...with toil, I with two brothers, used occasionally to disport ourselves, as the lawyers call it, at this sand-hill. One diversion was this : we used to go... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pàgines
...is a little hop-garden in which I used to work when from eight to ten years old ; from which I have, scores of times, run to follow the hounds, leaving...the best that it could to destroy the weeds. But the moat interesting thing was a sand-hill, which goes from a part of the heath down to the rivulet. As... | |
 | 1879 - 244 pàgines
...is a little hop garden in which I used to work when from eight to ten years old, from which I have scores of times run to follow the hounds, leaving...with toil, I, with two brothers, used occasionally to disport ourselves, as the lawyers call it, at this sand-hill. Our diversion was this. We used to go... | |
 | Robert Waters - 1883 - 616 pàgines
...leaving the hoe to do the best that it could to destroy the weeds; but the most interesting thing is a sand-hill, which goes from a part of the heath down...with toil, I with two brothers used occasionally to disport ourselves, as the lawyers call it, at this sand-hill. Our diversion was this: we used to go... | |
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