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a woman's pen. 247
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40o The Chester And Hereford Railway Pas...
to tlie manly youth , of two or three and twenty . Some higher organization has touched theirs you can see . They are of a type
hi seem gher to than have the done father the . best Nurture for , them examp . le They , training are , fine education manly ,
unaffected English youths , and the father ' s eye rests proudly , lovin " Is gly there upon a them good . inn hereabouts ? " asks the latter of the station
master . An official be where he may is always sententious . So the good
man jerks his thumb in the direction of a somewhat conspicuous building in the distance , and adds , " The Victoria Inn , sir . "
"It is not older than the railway , I suppose . " - " Nosir . "
" Ah , ! " says the gentleman with a smile , " I like most new things , but not in the shape of an inn . Is there no old-fashioned
fare p can lace get ? There . a No glass " White of ht home Horse to be brewed , " some no ale " Hen such , a clean and place Chickens bed for , and thi " s honest sa country y , where Eng was lish one
much . , written of oug in anglers' books long before , the day of railways , and good and great men too have fished , with the zeal of
schoolboys The many official , up . and smiles down . " such There brooks is precisel as you y have what here you . " want , sir , Joll
some short way across the old bridge there . It is called the ' y as Ang the lers county , ' and the can lan shew dlord will , old Joey ive you Hartshorne good fare , as and honest treat a soul you
handsomely , and tell you , something g , if I mistake not , of those you refer to . He recollects Sir Humphrey Davy well , and now-a-days
if the cockney fishermen the railway brings , and they swarm fessors the throug gentlemen h and May others and connected June who , like are with the so the new offcen Government inn hereabouts best , old survey , Joey measuring , doesn or the 't miss pro and
inspecting " Thank the rocks —the and lace quarries is just . " the thing . " So the gentleman
takes wishing the the direction you official indicated a p civil , good . His day sons , quits more the slowl little station follow , and for y
, baskets they are tourists burdened ' bags with the and varied so on impedimenta . Presently of fishing they disappear rods and
order altogether dinner , , for two the others two , younger turn aside hasten towards forward a water to the -mill little they inn can to
hear in the distance , , and the eldest loiters leisurely behind smoking a < ci The gar . father thus left alonehas an for all the _beaiities of the eye
, rustic landscape . The wide country highway * well traversed as can shadows flowers be seen , , the the the woodland golden bosky sunli rich coming g turfed ht ly nearer ing hed round gerows and , the nearer , the scent countless till of it the flecks fern autumn , with the _,
fl murmur oating in the the azure brooks of the the heavens songs of , are the all birds observe , the d fleecy and gi cloudlets ve their
A Woman's Pen. 247
a woman ' s pen . 247
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/31/
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