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Hodge and His Masters

Richard Jefferies

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The farm laborer, Hodge, worked for masters whose fortunes rose and fell with the land. Richard Jefferies opens on the farmers' parliament and follows the whole rural hierarchy through a changing English countryside. Sharp, sympathetic portraits of agricultural life. Understand old English farming through the men who ran and worked it.

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35 chapters

  1. 1HODGE AND HIS MASTERS
  2. 2RICHARD JEFFERIES
  3. 3AUTHOR OF 'THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME' 'WILD LIFE IN A SOUTHERN COUNTY' 'THE AMATEUR POACHER' 'ROUND ABOUT A GREAT ESTATE' ETC.
  4. 4PREFACE
  5. 5CONTENTS
  6. 6HODGE AND HIS MASTERS
  7. 7CHAPTER I THE FARMERS' PARLIAMENT
  8. 8CHAPTER II LEAVING HIS FARM
  9. 9CHAPTER III A MAN OF PROGRESS
  10. 10CHAPTER IV GOING DOWNHILL
  11. 11CHAPTER V THE BORROWER AND THE GAMBLER
  12. 12CHAPTER VI AN AGRICULTURAL GENIUS—OLD STYLE
  13. 13CHAPTER VII THE GIG AND THE FOUR-IN-HAND. A BICYCLE FARMER
  14. 14CHAPTER VIII HAYMAKING. 'THE JUKE'S COUNTRY'
  15. 15Footnotes:
  16. 16CHAPTER IX THE FINE LADY FARMER. COUNTRY GIRLS
  17. 17CHAPTER X MADEMOISELLE, THE GOVERNESS
  18. 18CHAPTER XI FLEECEBOROUGH. A 'DESPOT'

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