Our gardens / by S. Reynolds Hole.

  • Samuel Hole
Date:
1901
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Credit: Our gardens / by S. Reynolds Hole. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    do not remember to have met in the society to which he belongs. As for his apparel, I was constrained to state that I could not have be- lieved that a man of his ancient lineage and liberal education would have robbed a scarecrow, were I not positively convinced in my own mind that I had seen his jacket on duty. He only replied with a peremptory direction that I was to “ catch hold ’ of two huge watering-cans, fill them from a tank some fifty yards away, and bring them back toute suite. For an hour I wobbled up and down his walks between these ponderous utensils, until the dressing-bell rang, and my friend, having made himself a C.B., resumed his ordinary aspect as an English gentle- man. During dinner we made a few preliminary remarks upon minor matters, such as wars, politics, education, and the labour question, We spoke of other things ; we coursed about The subject most at heart, more near and near Like doves about a dovecote, whirling round The central wish, until we settled there.” I need hardly say that the subject was the garden and the dovecote under the verandah.
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