A Farmer's VacationTravels in the Netherlands, Normandy, Brittany and the Channel Islands, during August and September, 1873. |
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Page 241 - Mary's time surprised by the French, and could never have been recovered again by strong hand, having cattle and corn enough upon the place to feed so many men as will serve to defend it, and being every way so inaccessible, that it might be held against the great Turk. Yet by the industry of a gentleman of the Netherlands, it was in this sort regained. He anchored in the road with one ship...
Page 153 - Her home is made their home ; her wealth their dole ; Her busy courtyard hears no more the roll Of gilded vehicles, or pawing steeds, But feeble steps of those whose bitter needs Are their sole passport. Through that gateway press All varying forms of sickness and distress, And many a poor worn face that hath not smiled For years, — and many a feeble crippled child, — Blesses the tall white portal where they stand, And the dear Lady of the liberal hand.
Page 194 - of a deep orange color within 1 9. Eye, full and placid 1 10. Neck, straight, fine, and placed lightly on the shoulders .... 1 11. Chest, broad and deep 1 12. Barrel, hooped, broad and deep . 1 13. Well-ribbed home, having but little space between the last rib and the hip 1 14. Back, straight from the withers to the top of the hip 1 15.
Page 173 - Five Pounders," many of them being clerks spending their holiday weeks and their five-pound notes in noisy and unlovely pastimes. Happily they fill the great open excursion-cars and spend the whole day in the country. These cars, drawn by four horses, are of such width that they must needs keep to the broad roads, and their routes are easily avoided. In all our wanderings, we very rarely fell in with them. This incursion of tourists and the large floating population have built up certain branches...
Page 242 - French received them at their landing ; and searching every of them so narrowly as they could not hide a penknife, gave them leave to draw their coffin up the rocks with great difficulty : some part of the French took the Flemish boat, and rowed aboard their ship, to fetch the commodities promised, and what else they pleased ; but being entered, they were taken and bound. The Flemings on the land, when they had carried their coffin into the chapel, shut the door to them ; and taking their weapons...
Page 94 - Between Amsterdam and Meyden, the great Diemer dyke was broken through in twelve places. The Hand-bos, a bulwark formed of oaken piles, fastened with metal clamps, moored with iron anchors, and secured by gravel and granite, was snapped to pieces like packthread. The
Page 242 - French that they might bury their Merchant in hallowed Ground, and in the Chapel of that Isle; offering a Present to the French of such Commodities as they had aboard. Whereto (with Condition that they should not come ashore with any Weapon, not so much as with a Knife), the French yielded.
Page 179 - Eheumatism, however, is said to be aggravated. Ansted, in his work on the Channel Islands, says : " It may safely be assumed that all the islands are admirably adapted to restore the health, and strengthen, both mentally and bodily, the overtaxed energies of the inhabitants of great cities. They afford a pure, clear atmosphere, containing a large quantity of saline matter and iodine, and the frequent high winds insure a constant freshness, preventing the depressing effect sometimes accompanying humidity.
Page 175 - J'ai bien des fois parle" a mes amis au sujet d'elever un monument a son honneur, mais c'est comme si je me cognais la t6te contre un mur, ils ont peur de de"penser quelques sous, — eh ! Mon Dieu, ils en laisseront derriere eux de ces fre'luques, on ne les mettra point a leur servir d'oreiller, quand nous les placerons dans leur dernier grand habit noir, et qu'on les enverra se reposer dans le beau grand jardin de notre ami le Re've'rend Filleul.
Page 189 - ... very large nor very rich. In the Channel Islands, while the same general characteristics are to be traced, the question of color has obviously been disregarded, and a large majority of cattle have more or less white disposed in patches, white switches more often than not, white legs and feet, finer horns, and much less size and fleshiness; on the other hand, they are, for their size, very large milkers, their milk is of an extreme richness, and their leanness and general want of force are such...