. Our village. A Whistling boy: Hr^^^^ It seems to me, considering the temptation, that not toclump is to be at the very pinnacle of human virtue. Another turn in the lane, and we come to the oldhouse standing amongst the high elms—the old farm- F 66 OUR VILLAGE house, which ahvays, I dont know why, carries backmy imagination to Shakspeares days. It is a long,low, irregular building, with one room, at an angle from. Bean-setting. the house, covered with ivy, fine white-veined iv) ; thefirst floor of the main building projecting and supportedby oaken beams, and one of the windows below, withits
. Our village. A Whistling boy: Hr^^^^ It seems to me, considering the temptation, that not toclump is to be at the very pinnacle of human virtue. Another turn in the lane, and we come to the oldhouse standing amongst the high elms—the old farm- F 66 OUR VILLAGE house, which ahvays, I dont know why, carries backmy imagination to Shakspeares days. It is a long,low, irregular building, with one room, at an angle from. Bean-setting. the house, covered with ivy, fine white-veined iv) ; thefirst floor of the main building projecting and supportedby oaken beams, and one of the windows below, withits old casement and long narrow panes, forming the VIOLETING 67 half of a shallow hexagon. A porch, with seats in it,surmounted by a pinnacle, pointed roofs, and clusteredchimneys, complete the picture ! Alas ! it is little elsebut a picture ! The very walls are crumbling to decayunder a careless landlord and ruined tenant. Now a few yards farther, and I reach the ! I smell them already—their exquisite perfumesteams and lingers in this moist, heavy air. Throughthis little gate, and along the green south bank of thisgreen wheat-field, and they burst upon me, the lovelyviolets, in tenfold loveliness. The ground is coveredwith them, white and purple, enamelling the short dewygrass, looking but the more vividly coloured under thedull, leaden sky. There they lie by hundreds, bythousands. In former years I
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