. Lamb's friend the census-taker; life and letters of John Rickman . LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN RICKMAN 125 was a Hamboro grape ; and we had gooseberries too anda Morella cherry besides a very pretty Bird cherry tree . .and there was a corner and a mound to bury the kittensand canaries in, and a place where we all dug. ... It wasa very smooth lawn, and in the centre a round border, withsome shrubs and a hedge of white jasmine. . Papa veryoften in warm weather stretched himself down on theslope of turf that formed the terrace, in the centre of whichwere four stone steps : he generally went to sle
. Lamb's friend the census-taker; life and letters of John Rickman . LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN RICKMAN 125 was a Hamboro grape ; and we had gooseberries too anda Morella cherry besides a very pretty Bird cherry tree . .and there was a corner and a mound to bury the kittensand canaries in, and a place where we all dug. ... It wasa very smooth lawn, and in the centre a round border, withsome shrubs and a hedge of white jasmine. . Papa veryoften in warm weather stretched himself down on theslope of turf that formed the terrace, in the centre of whichwere four stone steps : he generally went to sleep, and wemade daisy chains to dress him up, and looked at his pig-tail, but we never quite made up our minds to pull it. An idyllic pleasaunce indeed, which the officials of to-daymay well envy. Rickman, in his own account written to hisdaughter, gives some details of the interior. The living-rooms were on the first floor. The best of these had threewindows looking on the river, and was called the sitting-room : here the family lived entirely when alone. Th
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