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This remind8.l- U8 of the milkman1 woo offered to give milk froo 'for a. similar exchange.

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Goods 'at Fair

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matsecondaty ' imPortanoo_. When they '
1;6. be reqQgl!ille,l' at their ·reo.! vaitie,
they·:.....- placed in the fr,ont -nnk(
not - J'<!Iegated to ·" heck seat, -then '
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Metal Soldiers a.nd Sailora, r~~:::~t
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Arllorfield
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Old wbo
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_of the Brazen . HaDd

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earnedthe
thatbut
nomen. how
Then -came
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owned" Biukham 88 well 88 Arbodield;
Perhaps I may he able to. tell ,.on in •
later article how they became ' pcosBBsed
of my village .a well aa Arborfi'lld. Th"J'
were .. proJijio race, theae BullocklJ,- and
subsbq'l"ntly "-me impoveriBhed,_ ana
sold tllI> _
-to William BtandSli. _He
marri8d MÂ¥ia -da\!ldlter of Samuel U........
hooae, of Swa\low1ield, and ball a( c~
NichOlaS Love, who was hom ,in 1637' ~aJKl
died the next y..,.r_ Th"", are line ~arble
effigies oLthe BqlliriO anG hia lady. in the ' . wolcc)in~
liftle chapel tliat adjoins the b01)ss;
"'1~,"11:1':a
-tl'~=:e
William Standen ' is d""""'<l in . armour
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wearing a ruff and .. oirulr cap, aha his
wife ha. a book in her left hand. ....a·her
ohHd a' ber ..il>c>t. Be .died on M..y J8tb,
1639, and was probably the' builder of the

bouse over the ruins of whieh Miss Mitford mou'rned. The last of the StandenB',
..:::'::..':':~F.dw..rd, died in
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Arb,!,tJ.!'I~ made

you thought that
depend upon .'
the ~rownup I"el~ll
It is you w~o
~ecid~ upon lh~ir 'G~fts-the
Toy. -to make
happy~ . Apd only &y- seeing ALL ' the kincla
.-youngsters ' have heard - ordr~~nied
of iait
t~m~k~ape~f~ct'choic~
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attain .,' --c. ' -' We
native
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Nothing
can exceed '
luxuriance, ...peciaJIy in
the .prin)!, wOOn the lil"" and lAbUrnum
and douj;&ch.rry put forth their gOl'geoua
blosaomir. There.i .. a 8weet oadn_ in tile I
siodlt Of .Uell dowerin.... amidst' S\ICb dere
solation;
it seem. the
triumph'-.\>f·
over the destructive
po....
r of !Dan."n ....,t:u ,

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merciful I!eglect; the
up, the lawn mawn
a common hayfield, the
m'eou),jerinp: into ruin, and the fiob-l
rushee and aquatip
tond l\O",erin~ tree.

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litera.ture in our li~es. Thbse two factol'8,
whioh ha.ve the power 'of transforming
even &, drab and w9 rkada,y exiotence inoo
a.. tlllng? of tiright'"nesri and intelligent-- plea.:

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net. Pooket
gilt top, >3/-

late

F""cari, "'as at

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Mayor!&y
iml,oril
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of the
watching"
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int..u'~I1aI · in_ _ of
meeting of the
Briti.}>. Empi~e ~ ~l~~:!f,

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,,(OLF • .
ignetts.

fa.Tming hIS own lands, ~ and
magnificent home with a
almost as t e nacious as that

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Flr~ ~s. b?utime,

befoTe
tbem U.... of
the-!ames
Grea.t the
tiful strncture

w..:uth' and ~tation to 'actual
She states t hat "The hou,e
and p";'k, and a small estate ro!ffid it,
p.-ere entailed u pon a.
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!!'~i1.b1~.r?' t-h.. ' ",-h ose I glassless WIndows an~ dilapIdated
' doors formed n. melancholy contrast with
the strength and entireness of the rich
and massive fropt.!'
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Miss 1vUtfatd tell. t li. sto,>: of the l"l\in
with not ' quite accurate ' d.et::uJ. Sh~ s~w
in it the d ecay of &n a.DCl-ent, and dlstlnfamily gradually reO.uc."ed from

then he should
Wilson t<"the liest
could not gnarantee
the future. He, for one

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are bent j on a. pilgrim"a ge,
thli 01<1
house has gone and a. new
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ha-s
taken its place. J need not add that )~8
correct name is Arbomeld Hall, or 88 It
used to be caUed Arborfield I1ou~. Tho
Jadf98 found themselyes, ~fter crqs~ng. th~
beautiful Loddon, by a plcture".'lile b~ld~e
tb..n.t has now give~ wa.:r to an 1,r on gIrder
arrangement, III 11. spacIOus . park, and saw

ever or whether it
a. nov.; triumph is

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'are , yet man'y ~tchera ,
adherent. of LiJ>eralisril who
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the name of
old Himse at Aherleigb,

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REAL CHARLOTTE.
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the immortal
comp8lnio!l was

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any'one knows of &
answering that · deScription, says
Mayor, he will gladly forward the information to th~ proper quarter.
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As dead as dOor-nQ.ii~/' is i he verqict
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more arden""'t CoalitIOnists, but there

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In . tho early years of the lnst cent1)ry
two ladies· might have been observed drIVing in a littlu pony chaise somewhat the
,vorse for wear, drawn by '" an old jmnre,
with
a
~ood-humou l'ed
urchin.
a~
char~oroer, In the direction from 'rhree
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ter., chjniney., gaftos, <>tc.,
many models, Boxee at 1/',
Whitewood Bricks Ifor ~he .young b"ild,,,__tJ,,,,
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