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    FRUITS IN THEIE, SEASON. 255

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    ; and sticks then , and on the arriving careful at cutting the scene and of _preiDarin action g the of g these lad sh hy out the of - some way ;

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    it seems sticke be , proverbiall that such the as stick men y easy for use the to to " walk find or a ride stick withal yet to be strike . " matter So a dog then of selection with , thoug , ' it .

    Whatever dispute there may purpose be as may to their special adaptation for some of the uses to which they have been assigned , it is unquesdurable

    than tionabl of rustic those y houses a fact of any , that garden other rods seats wood of hazel , & for c , are and such handsomer when purposes dyed , as and and the well more construction arranged

    mosaic having may be the even formed effect so combined into of which very them was varied very as to patterns striking form a ; . landscape a In Berkshire Staffordshire , in c a arpenter sort they of ,

    Fruits In Theie, Season. 255

    FRUITS IN THEIE , SEASON . 255

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 255, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/39/