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1843.
A Discourse preached on Sunday March 23, 1843, to the First Congregational Society in Kennebunk, Me. occasioned by the Death of Rev. George W[adsworth] Wells, former pastor of that Society. By Edward H[enry] Edes, pastor of the Society. Published by request. Kennebunk : printed by James K. Remich. 18.43. 12mo. pp. 21.
Since this title was printed, at the bottom of page 182 of the preceding volume, I have seen a copy of the pamphlet ; and for that reason I give it again and describe it with exactness.
Order of Services at the Installation of the Rev. Joseph C. Smith, as Pastor of the First Parish in Groton, Wednesday, July 12, 1843. G. H. Brown's Press, Groton. Broadside
1844.
Groton. [Worcester, 1844.]
This brief sketch by John Warner Barber appears in his " Historical Collections " of Massachusetts (pages 389-392). There are two other editions of the work, published in 1839 and 1848 respectively.
1847.
Order of Exercises at the Consecration of the Groton Cemetery, Tuesday, Aug. 24th, at 9 o'clock, A. M. [1847.] G. H. Brown's Press, Groton. Broadside.
1848.
The Perjury Case ! Further Developments. Mr. Clark's Replies to the Letters of George F[rederick ] Farley, and Ashael Hunting- ton, Esq's. Boston : Printed for the Publisher. 1848. Svo. pp. 16.
These " Developments " are a continuation of the " Alarm- ing Developments " mentioned at the bottom of page 451 of the preceding volume, which brought out as replies the letters of Mr. Farley and Mr. Huntington here referred to. Mr. Farley's letter, dated at Groton, on February 24, 1848, appears
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in "The Boston Daily Atlas " of the next day, and takes up about half a column ; and Mr. Huntington's, dated at Salem, on March 2, in the issue of March 9, where it occupies more . than four columns of space.
1850.
[Verses written by Aaron Perkins of Groton Junction, and printed for circulation.] Slip.
See pages 370 and 371 of the preceding volume, where a copy of the verses is given.
1850.
Hutchins Pedigree. Leaflet, Svo. I p.
This sheet was probably printed about the year 1850, and contains a brief notice of Nicholas Hutchins, an early settler of Groton, and of some of his descendants.
1853.
Order of Services at the Installation of Rev. Crawford Nightin- gale, as Pastor of the First Parish in Groton, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 1853. Brown's Press, Groton. Broadside.
No Politics, but Facts? [Groton, February, 1853.] Svo. I p.
This leaflet relates to the election of town officers forty years ago.
1861.
To the Republican Voters of the Fourth Middlesex Senatorial District. Broadside.
This poster is signed by " Many Republicans of Ashby, Groton, Littleton, Pepperell, Shirley, Townsend, and West- ford," October 31, 1861, and relates to a Convention held at Groton Junction on October 26.
1862.
Look ! Look ! A true Copy of the Footings of the Orders drawn by the Selectmen on account of Poor from 1847 to 1861 inclusive with the names of the Overseers. [ 1862. ] 12mo. 1 p.
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1863.
Chaplain Fuller : being a Life Sketch of a New England Clergy- man and Army Chaplain. By Richard F[rederic] Fuller. Boston : Walker, Wise, and Company, 245 Washington Street. 1863. 12m0. pp. vi, 342. Portrait.
1864.
[Poster of Alfred Bolivar Miller, Principal of Lawrence Academy, Groton, May, 1864, offering his services as land surveyor. ] 8vo. 1 p.
1865.
Original Hymnn. Tune : Star Spangled Banner. [Groton, July 4, 1865.] Broadside.
1 869.
[A letter written by Gibson Smith to Rev. E. H. Page, concerning his lecture on spiritualism delivered at the Baptist Church, March 21, 1869. Dated, Groton Junction, March 22, 1869.] No title- page. Svo. pp. (4).
1871.
The History of the Baptist Church in Groton. [By Oliver Ayer ?]
This account appears on pages 19-22 of the " Minutes of the Wachusett Baptist Association, held with the Baptist Church in Winchendon, September 13 and 14, 1871."
1872.
Jersey Stock owned by Geo. S. Boutwell, Groton, Mass., May, 1872. Registered in American Jersey Herd-Book. Broadside.
1875.
Sermon preached at the New Church of the Brattle-Square Society, February 14, 1875 ; the Sunday after the death of James Lawrence. By S[amuel] K[irkland] Lothrop. Boston : Press of John Wilson and Son. 1875. Svo. pp. 13.
1880.
Groton. By Samuel A. Green, M.D. [Boston, 1880.]
This sketch forms a chapter in the first volume of Samuel A. Drake's " History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts" (pages 454-469).
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1884.
Woods of Groton. Leaflet, pp. (2).
I have seen a printed slip, containing on one side a list of the " Woods of Groton," and on the other some suggestions in regard to "Reading." The list comprises IOS names of different trees and woody shrubs, and was made by James T. Bennett, at that time a member of the High School, who had collected specimens of each kind mentioned. It was the result of a recommendation to the scholars, and is referred to in the " Annual Report of the School Committee of the Town of Groton, for the year ending March, 1885 " (page 8).
1886.
Fruit Grown in the Shade. [By] Lizzie [Elizabeth] C[ornelia] Williams. Copyright, 1886. No imprint. 16mo. pp. 32.
This little book was written by a daughter of Lewis and Elizabeth (Flagg) Williams, of Groton, and contains some local allusions.
1888.
Lawrence Farm, Groton, Mass. Shropshire Sheep. H. S. Turner, Power Printer, Ayer. No titlepage. Svo. pp. (4).
1889.
List of Voters of the Town of Groton. Broadside.
The Names of Women who have a right to vote for School Com- mittee. Broadside.
1 890.
Charles W. Stone, of Warren [Pennsylvania]. A Sketch of His Life and Public Services. [Philadelphia, 1890.] Svo. pp. (4). Portrait.
This article was written by Attorney-General William S. Kirkpatrick, and appeared first in the " Philadelphia Times," early in 1890. Mr. Stone is a native of Groton, and has been Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania ; and the pamphlet sets forth reasons why he should be nominated as Governor of that Commonwealth. Another sketch with a portrait appeared in the " Warren Weekly Mirror," January 25, 1890.
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List of Voters of the Town of Groton. Broadside.
Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Town of Groton, with other statistical matter, for the year ending, March 20, 1890. Ayer, Mass. : Huntley S. Turner, Pamphlet and Job Printer. 8vo. pp. 52.
Annual Report of the School Committee of the Town of Groton, for the year ending March 20, 1890. Ayer, Mass .: Huntley S. Turner, Pamphlet and Job Printer. 8vo. pp. 13.
Catalogue of 20 Head of thoroughbred Holstein-Friesian Cattle to be sold by Auction in Groton Centre, Thursday, April 17, 1890, at One P. M., belonging to Frank F. Woods. H. S. Turner, Printer, Ayer, Mass. No imprint. Svo. pp. (4).
An Account of the Physicians and Dentists of Groton, Massa- chusetts : including those who, born there, have practised their profession elsewhere. With an Appendix. By Samuel A. Green, M.D. Groton : 1890. 8vo. pp. (5), 90.
This also appears in the present volume (pages 1-90) as Number I., though with no titlepage.
Papers relating to Captain Thomas Lawrence's Company, raised in Groton, Massachusetts, during the French and Indian War, 1758. Remarks made before the Massachusetts Historical Society, May 8, 1890. By Samuel Abbott Green, M.D. Cambridge : John Wilson and Son. University Press. 1890. 8vo, pp. 15.
People and their Homes in Groton, Massachusetts, in Olden Time. By Francis Marion Boutwell. Groton : 1890. 8vo. pp. 18.
Lawrence Farm, Groton, Massachusetts. Shropshire Sheep [and Guernsey Cattle ]. [July 21, 1890.] No titlepage. Svo. pp. (8).
Ninety-seventh Anniversary of Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass. Wednesday and Thursday, June 25 and 26, 1890. leaf. 8vo. pp. 2.
Groton Public Library. Supplement No. 5, 1890. No titlepage. 8vo. pp. 28.
The Northern Boundary of Massachusetts in its relation to New Hampshire : a Part of the Council's Report made to the American Antiquarian Society, at Worcester, on October 21, 1890. By Samuel A Green, M.D. Cambridge : John Wilson and Son. University Press. 1890. 8vo. pp. 23.
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This edition of the Report was confined to ten or twelve copies printed in advance of the meeting at Worcester; and later numerous slight changes were made before the second edition, with the same title, was struck off. Another edition (pages 24) from the Proceedings (Second Series, VII., 11-32) of the Society, with a few more trifling changes and addi- tions, was printed at Worcester. Several pages are given up to the controversy in regard to the line between New Hamp- shire and Massachusetts, when the town of Groton during the Provincial period lost a strip of considerable territory.
Catalogue of Groton School, Groton, Mass. 1890-1891. Ayer, Mass. : Huntley S. Turner, Printer. 12mo. pp. (16).
John Lakin's Deed, 1653. Communicated by the Hon. Samuel A. Green, M.D., of Boston. [Dec. 1890.] No titlepage. Svo. PP. 3.
This is a reprint from "The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register " (XL.V., 81, 82) for January, 1891.
Groton. By Hon. Samuel A. Green. [Philadelphia, 1890.]
This sketch forms Chapter XL. in the second volume of Hurd's " History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts " (pages 501-570).
1891.
The Groton Literary Club in Search of the Sea Serpent A Realistic Story. Groton, January 26, 1891. No titlepage. 8vo. pp. 24.
Chapter I. was written by Miss Georgianna Adelia Bout- well; II. by Miss Lucy Florence Young ; III. by Mrs. Harriet Farnsworth Gulick; IV. by James Morven Smith; and V. by the Reverend Joshua Young, D.D.
The First Census of Massachusetts. By the Hon. Samuel A. Green, M.D. Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society. [Boston, 1891.] No imprint. Svo. pp. 7.
A reprint from the " Publications of the American Statisti- cal Association " (Second Series, II., 182-185) for March, 1891. The substance of this Paper is taken from another pamphlet
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entitled " The Population of Groton at different times, with some Notes on the Provincial Census of 1765," mentioned at the bottom of page 222 of the preceding volume.
Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Town of Groton, with other statistical matter, for the year ending March 20, 1891. Ayer, Mass. : Huntley S. Turner, Pamphlet and Job Printer. Svo. pp. 55.
Annual Report of the School Committee of the Town of Groton for the Fiscal Year ending March 20, 1891. Ayer, Mass. : Huntley S. Turner, Pamphlet and Job I'rinter. Svo. pp. 19.
To the Voters of Groton. No titlepage. 8vo. pp. (3).
This is a Report made to the Town by a Committee, of which Michael Sheedy, Jr., was Chairman, and is dated April 1, 1891. It contains Mrs. Sibley's letter of gift making her handsome offer toward a new building for the Public Library.
Papers relating to the Companies of Captain Thomas Farrington, and Captain Samuel Tarbell, both raised in Groton, Massachusetts, during the French and Indian War. By Samuel A. Green. No titlepage. 8vo. pp. 7.
A reprint from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society (Second Series, VI., 426-432) for May 14, 1891.
Rules and Regulations of the Board of Health of the Town of Groton, [1891.] No titlepage. Svo. pp. 7.
Another edition at the same time was published as a broad- side.
Catalogue of the Trustees, Instructors and Students of Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., for the year ending June 25, 1891. Ninety-eighth year. Fitchburg : printed by the Sentinel Printing Company. 1891. 12mo. pp. 15, (1).
Graduating Exercises [Lawrence Academy]. Thursday, June 25, at Town Hall, at 9.30 A. M. 12mo. pp. (2).
Harvard University Examinations. Papers used at the Admis- sion Examinations held at Cambridge, Quincy, Groton, Andover, Southborough, Worcester, Exeter, Concord, New York, Albany,
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Buffalo, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Denver, San Francisco, Portland (Or.), Bonn (Germany), and. Tokyo (Japan). June, 1891. Cambridge, Mass., 1891. Svo. pp. 24.
Matthias Farnsworth and his Descendants in America. A Mono- graph. By Claudius Buchanan Farnsworth. Pawtucket, R. I. Pub- lished by the Author, 1891. Svo. pp. 122.
Catalogue of Groton School, Groton, Mass. 1891-1892. Ayer, Mass .: Huntley S. Turner, Printer. 12mo. pp. (18).
Groton Public Library. Supplement No. 6. 1891. No title- page. Svo. pp. 36.
1892.
An Account of the Lawyers of Groton, Massachusetts, including natives who have practised elsewhere, and those also who have studied law in the town. With an Appendix. By Samuel A. Green, M.D. Groton : 1892. 8vo. pp. 158.
This also appears in the present volume (pages 187-334) as Number VI., though with no titlepage or index.
Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Town of Groton, with other Statistical Matter, for the Year ending March 19, 1892. Ayer, Mass .: Huntley S. Turner, Pamphlet and Job Printer. 8vo. pp. 56.
Annual Report of the School Committee of the Town of Groton for the Fiscal Year ending March 21, 1892. Ayer, Mass. : Huntley S. Turner, Pamphlet and Job Printer. 8vo. pp. 19.
Manual of the Union Church of Christ, in Groton, Mass., with list of members. Revised March, 1892. No imprint. 12mo. pp. 16.
Catalogue of the Trustees, Instructors and Students of Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., for the year ending June 23, 1892. Ninety- ninth Year. Fitchburg : Printed by the Sentinel Printing Company, 1892. 12mo. pp. 15, (2).
Ninety-ninth Anniversary of Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., Wednesday and Thursday, June 22 and 23, 1892. 12mo. pp. (4).
Catalogue of Groton School, Groton, Mass. 1892-1893. Ayer, Mass. Huntley S. Turner, Printer. 12000. pp. (18).
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William Nutting. No titlepage. Svo. pp. 2.
This sketch contains the remarks made by Dr. Samuel A. Green at a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, November 10, 1892, when in behalf of the Reverend John Keep Nutting, of Glenwood, Iowa, he presented the diary, 1777-1804, of William Nutting, of Groton. It is a reprint from the Pro- ceedings (Second Series, VIII., 22, 23) of that Society.
1893. [ Bill.] House, 514. [1893.] Svo. pp. (3).
This bill, dated February 7, 1893, accompanies the petition of S. Endicott Peabody for an act of incorporation as the Trustees of Groton School. It was passed, with some trivial changes, by the House of Representatives on March 9, and the Senate on March 16, and was approved by the Governor on March 17.
With very few exceptions all the books, pamphlets, circu- lars, broadsides, etc., mentioned in these several chapters on the " Bibliography of Groton," may be found in the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
I am now satisfied that the handwriting referred to about half-way down page 174 of the preceding volume, is Nathaniel Huntting's and not Joseph Green's, as there stated.
GROTON NEWSPAPERS.
As supplementing the article on Groton Newspapers in the first volume of the Historical Series ( Number V., pages 11- 14), I wish to name the following publications which have appeared since the issue of that number : -
"The Grotonian," published monthly during the school year by the students of the Groton School, which began in March, 1885, and is still kept up.
"The Lawrencian," published monthly by the students of Lawrence Academy, which began in December, 1891, and was continued until June, 1802.
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The publication of the " The Students' Aid," mentioned in the first volume (Number V., page 13), was continued at the same intervals, as there stated, until June, 1888. After that time one number appeared in the following December, and three numbers, respectively, in June, 1889, June, 1890, and June, 1891, which was the last.
"The Reminder," " published weekly at the Union Congre- gational Church, Groton, Mass.," and devoted to the interests of that Church, first appeared on October 6, 1888, and was continued for twenty-five weeks, ending on April 6, 1889.
ADVERTISING SHEETS.
" Our Spice Box" is the name of a sheet issued by John H. Sheedy & Co., Groton, which has appeared monthly for several years. It is still kept up, and is printed at No. 295 Washing- ton Street, Boston.
"The Groton Druggist " is the title of a paper, of which I have seen a single number for July, 1891, bearing the name of W. H. Bruce as proprietor.
" The Esther Courier," a four-page sheet, containing among numerous advertisements, the cast and synopsis of the Opera " Esther, the Beautiful Queen," to be given in the Town Hall, at Groton, on January 16 and 17, 1889, by a chorus of seventy- five Groton Singers and others.
"The Bugle Call," a similar sheet, advertising a " Grand Concert of War Songs," to be given in the Town Hall, at Groton, on March 26, 1889, and containing the programme besides other notices. It also has a list of " Groton's Heroes, who died in the War of the Rebellion."
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MR. OSCAR FAY ADAMS writes a letter to the " Boston Evening Transcript," March 8, 1893, giving an account of a visit to some of the Suffolk towns in England, with which
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certain places in this Commonwealth are connected both by name and tradition. It is dated in London, February 5, and furnishes a good description of Groton, the ancestral home of Governor Winthrop. In connection with the subject, see other accounts of Old Groton, as printed on pages 139 and 140 of this volume, and on pages 89-92 of the preceding volume. The following extract is taken from the letter : -
I could not stay long in Hadleigh for a walk of unknown extent was before me, and therefore I was soon " stepping westward " into the country with Hadleigh and its tall church spire buried in the vale behind. I had gone two or three miles and gained the top of a hill when I saw ahead of me, sharply outlined against the horizon, the tall tower and body of a gray flint church.
Near it were a couple of houses, but there was nothing else in sight, and lonely and grand the church stood up against the sky. But as I passed around to the north of the church the scene changed. A narrow valley lay at my feet, and filling it with a huddle of red roofs and plastered walls, was a clustering village street plunging down one slope and partly climbing the opposite one. It was the village of Kersey, which long ago gave its name to the well-known cloth ; and only a few miles away is Lindsay, from which the fabric linsey receives its name. Three hundred years ago these Suffolk valleys were full of Flemish weavers fleeing from the persecutions of the Duke of Alva ; and these small places became the seats of the cloth manufacture that has long ago de- parted to other places, leaving them as quiet as it found them, and no doubt quite as picturesque. I have met with few greater sur- prises than the loneliness of Kersey church when seen from the south, followed by the unexpected discovery of the village below it on the north. It was well worth a long walk to experience. A white mist came on with the darkness that afternoon, and after crossing the wide and thinly settled parish of Groton I was glad enough to get to the little town of Boxford, where I spent the night. It is a very small town, or large village, with a magnificent old parish church, which I visited the next morning. To the architectural student Boxford church, exhibiting as it does the transition from the curvi- linear to the perpendicular style, is of much interest ; but the aver- age tourist would perhaps remember longest this memorial tablet, which I saw on one of the walls of the interior :
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In Memory of Elizabeth Hyam, of this Parish, for the fomth time a Widow : who by a Fall, that brought on a Mortification, was at last hastened to her End, on the 4th May, 174S, in her 113th Year.
There is a fine irony perceptible in the expression "hastened to her End," when taken in connection with the widow Hyam's ad- vanced age at the time of her demise, and one is led somehow to infer that, but for the untimely fall, and consequent mortification, she might have been again left a widow, and have had it recorded of her as of the wife of Bath, that -
" Husbands at the church door had she five."
Since I have quoted this epitaph I may as well mention one that I discovered not long since, which runs in this wise :
" Weep not for me, my parents dear, There is no witness needed here. The hammer of Death was given to me For eating cherries off the tree."
Punishment would appear in this instance to have trodden quickly on the heels of the offence. The parishes of Groton and Boxford join, but there is no village in the former parish. Scattered over its extent are several groups of cottages and the largest one of these is less than half a mile from Boxford Church. In this group are a small inn called the Fox and Hounds, a large farmhouse with spacious outbuildings known as Groton Hall, and beyond it the churchyard with St. Bartholomew's Church in the midst. Beyond this again are a few cottages, the rectory, an open field or two, and then a fine old brick farmhouse with wings and half covered with ivy.
I sent in my card at the rectory, and the rector, Rev. John William Wayman, a man in middle life who has spent more than twenty years in this remote parish, came quickly forward and greeted me most cordially. We went together to the church, and there in the parish register he pointed out in the record of " christenings that chauneed in the parish of Groton in the year 1587," the birth of
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John Winthrop, in January of that year, or, new style, 1588. The writing in the register for a long term of years before and after this date is very fine, but beautifully clear and regular, and is singularly unaffected by time. Scattered through the register are other records pertaining to the Winthrop family, for in these days they were the lords of the manor and held the living of Groton in their gift. When the dissolution of the monasteries was effected by Henry the Eighth this right was given to Adam Winthrop, the grandfather of the first governor of Massachusetts, and it remained in the possession of the Winthrops for a hundred years, till in the time of Charles I. it was purchased of them by Thomas Waring. The parish church, which is dedicated to St. Bartholomew, is quite small, consisting of nave and chancel, with very narrow nave aisles, an organ chamber, a western tower and a north porch. In the tower is a very ancient oaken chest, hewn from a log and heavily bound with iron. In the chancel is a large east window of stained glass, placed there by Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, who has paid more than one visit to the home of his great ancestor. In the exterior northeastern angle of the nave and chancel is the Winthrop tomb, an oblong structure with broad top, which has likewise been restored by the same reverential hand as the window, and the church shows other instances of Mr. Win- throp's care.
Of late years a number of Americans have visited Groton ; among them the late Bishop of Massachusetts, of whom the rector spoke with feelings of the warmest admiration. He said that as he and Dr. Brooks stood there in the church, his guest gazed curiously at the pulpit, a small carved oaken one, supported by a single frail- looking pillar or standard.
" I wonder if it will bear me ?" asked the rector of Trinity, look- ing at his own grand proportions and then at the ancient little pulpit.
" I think it will," said Mr. Wayman and so Dr. Brooks stepped up into it and remained for a while, "and very noble and proud he looked as he stood there," concluded the rector with pardonable enthusiasm.
As he spoke my thoughts travelled quickly across the sea to the Trinity pulpit and to the pulpit in Appleton Chap: I where I had so often seen the great bishop standing, but where I should never see him stand again, and then they came back to the little English church where I was, and I seemed to have before me the keen glance of those eyes, and the kindly face with its look bent upon me from
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out of the old pulpit in the church where John Winthrop once wor- shipped. Then the vision failed and -
" Only an unseen presence filled the air And baffled our pursuit."
The rector opened the small outer door in the chancel and we went across the churchyard past the cottages and rectory to the open field beyond, and there my guide pointed out the hollow in the turf marking the site of the house where John Winthrop was born. Near it is a rough stone sunk deep into the sod but still showing some ten inches or more above it, which tradition declares was the mounting-block placed by one of the doors. Traces of a short avenue of trees leading to the roadway may still be seen. A long oval depression in the soil a little farther indicates the position of a former fish or pleasure pond, and behind it flourishes in ex- treme old age a gnarled and misshapen mulberry tree, whose young fruit John Winthrop may well have gathered in his early manhood. To the right stands the large old farmhouse which succeeded on the Winthrop estates the birth place of Adam Winthrop's son John. All about to east and west, to north and south, stretch green fertile fields or dark brown ploughed ones that steamed in the warm February sun- shine. In the distance great yellow hay ricks stood up like golden villages, and from far up in the blue overhead unseen larks sent down their showers of song.
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