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... IN THE FOLD ? A MESSAGE, 116 -- 22 THE GREAT BARN AND THE SHEEP-SHEARERS, 122 -- 23 EVENTIDE?A SECOND DECLARATION, 131 -- 24 THE SAME NIGHT? THE FIR PLANTATION, 137 -- 25 THE NEW ACQUAINTANCE DESCRIBED, 143 -- 26 SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD, 146 -- 27 HIVING THE BEES, 154...

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...— A SECOND DECLARATION . . . . . . . . . . 131 24 THE SAME NIGHT — THE FIR PLANTATION . . . . . . . . 137 25 THE NEW ACQUAINTANCE DESCRIBED . . . . . ... ...down. The hill was covered on its northern side by an ancient and decaying plantation of beeches, whose upper verge formed a line over the crest, frin... ... high or wide. It came from the direction of a small dark object under the plantation hedge — a shepherd’s hut — now presenting an outline to which an... ...est; far 10 NIGHT—THE FLOCK—AN INTERIOR—ANOTHER INTERIOR away through the plantation Vega and Cassiopeia’s chair stood daintily poised on the uppermo... ... he had previously taken to be a star low down behind the outskirts of the plantation was in reality no such thing. It was an artificial light, almost ... ...e consciousness that it is quite in isolation. Farmer Oak went towards the plantation and pushed through its lower boughs to the windy side. A dim mas... ... that the incident of the night had occurred there Oak went again into the plantation. Lingering and musing here he heard the steps of a horse at the ... ... action for the present. The path, after passing the cowshed, bisected the plantation. It was not a bridle path — merely a pedes trian’s track, and t... ...necessity for this abnormal attitude having ceased with the passage of the plantation, she began to adopt another, even more obviously convenient than...

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... and our hearts. Soon we struck off to the south, and passing through taro plantations, began to as- cend the slopes of the island. As we walked along... ...e. Walked back with a boy called Tahi for my guide, and stopped at several plantations, and talked with the people. ‘Sat out in the cool evening on th... ...e Southern New Hebrides (principally T anna) natives to work on the cotton plantations of white settlers in Fiji. It is all, as I am assured, under th... ... absurd. Yet, a large number of Tanna men, living on really well-conducted plantations, owned by good men, might lead to a nucleus of Christian T anne... ... M. T rue, say I, if (!) you can find the good planters and well-conducted plantations. Mr. M. assures me that they (the Wesleyan Missionaries) are wa... ...sels of the labour traffic had come to obtain people to work in the cotton plantations in Queensland, and that they had already begun to invite them i... ...aders from Sydney and elsewhere, who have taken many people to work in the plantations at Brisbane, Mimea, (New Caledonia), and the Fiji Islands, actu... ...; they may pass laws as to the treatment the natives are to receive on the plantations, as to food, pay, &c., the time of service, the date of their b... ... were from 5,000 to 6,000. Large sheep farms have been laid out, and sugar plantations established. South Sea Islanders are found to have much of the ...

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...e whole live stock, including ferrets and the tame hedge- hog; visited the plantations, and assisted at the killing of a stoat; cut his name out on th... ...ere? Willy, you must go and call them. The Hall is nearest; go through the plantation as fast as you can. Go to papa in the study; if he is not there,... ...bark- ing of dogs, the tinkle of the sheep-bell, the woodsman’s axe in the plantations, and now and then the rattle of Dumple’s harness, as she shook ... ...and asking questions, when Beatrice beheld some figures advancing from the plantation. She dashed through the heath and furze to meet them, sending he...

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...t I never did better work, or more of it, in the same space of time on the plantation for Covey, the negro-breaker, than I did for my- self in these e...

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...ty with a lilac haze, through which villas, and commons, and churches, and plantations glimmered. W e drive up the hill, Bob and I; we make the last t...

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...deed she wondered to find him still by her side, hold- ing the gate of the plantation open for her. He peered under her hat as she went through— ‘How ... ...ly, and began to take long rambles in the loneliest parts of the heath and plantations, while Rich- ard left him scrupulously to his own devices, and ...

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...ong them; and removing all the Histiaeans out of the country, brought in a plantation of Athenians in their room; making them his one example of sever... ...ted for the war; and they showed entire aversion to the proposal for a new plantation; so that the senate was at a loss what to say or do. But Marcius... ...the Corinthians, who had always a great concern for all their colonies and plantations, but especially for Syracuse, since by good fortune there was n...

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...e mag- nificence of the view; the immense sweep of the river, the artistic plantations, the last-century garden with its big box hedges and remains of...

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...emskirk would land on the point and perambulate silently every part of the plantation as if the whole place belonged to him, before her went to the ho... ... a gleam of it. “Oh, of course, if you have means of your own—a mansion, a plantation that I know nothing of—” But he was not capable of sustained iro...

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...icar had never come back, and it was reported that he had been sent to the plantations in America. There was no service on Sunday nearer than Bristol.... ...brother Holworth, as he called him, was not in prison but in the Virginian plantations. He was still the only true minister of Elmwood, and Mr. Woodle... .... After a term of imprisonment in London, he had been trans- ported to the plantations, namely, the American settlements, and had fallen in with frien...

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...hrough fens and fogs, up long hills, winding dark as caverns between thick plantations, almost shut- ting out the sparkling stars; so, out on broad he...

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...dmiration. The remainder was shut off by knolls of old trees, or luxuriant plantations, and the steep woody hills rising behind, to give it shelter, w... ...ion. Henry returned to what was now his only home, to watch over his young plantations, and extend his improve- 193 Jane Austen ments for her sake, t...

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...coal, threw out its smoke upon cotton, coffee, nut- meg, clove, and pepper plantations, while the steam curled in spirals around groups of palm-trees,... ... He went on till he found himself in the fields, in the midst of vast rice plantations. There he saw dazzling camellias expand- ing themselves, with f...

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...ch from the terraces immense cannon are perpetually looking, surrounded by plantations of cannon-balls and beds of bomb-shells, sufficient, one would ... ...ties are seen winding up the hill, and busy about the endless cannon- ball plantations; awkward squads are drilling in the open spaces:sentries marchi...

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...e Sent Louis trade now, you see. It ‘uz jes fair daylight when we passed our plantation, en I seed a gang o’ niggers en white folks huntin’ up en down...

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... the wav- ing green of the fields, the clumps of palm trees, the fenced-in plantations, the groves of fruit trees, made up a picture of sumptuous pros... ...ruit trees, masked by the cultivated patches of Indian corn and the banana plantations. Near the shore the rigid lines of two stockaded forts could be...

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...ili- tating the introduction of the free-labor system on the Missis- sippi plantations. He is acquainted with, and has access to, many of the planter...

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...d knew no more of anything till we were far at sea. I was destined for the plantations; a fate that, in God’s providence, I have escaped.” “The brig w...

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...goods, all wool—’ Like hell! It was nice vegetable wool, right off the Ole Plantation! ‘It’s all wool,’ he says, ‘and we get sixty-seven ninety for it... ...t he was wistfully discontented, he saw magno- lias by moonlight and heard plantation darkies crooning to the banjo. He wanted to be near her, on pret...

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...s, which she could just see wheeling about as little black specks over the plantations of Woodside, or watching the swallows assem- bling for departur... ...bye they reached the summit of the hill, and looked forth on the dark pine plantations on the opposite undulation, standing out in black relief agains... ...e in despair at the absence of berries, and had ransacked Colo- nel Bury’s plantations in vain. The next day, about twilight, Albinia and Sophy were a...