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Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
Arthur Herbert Savory
The bailiff, the hop drier, the head carter, the carpenter: an English manor ran on skilled hands. Arthur Savory gathers grain and chaff from Aldington, recalling the farm, the manor house, and the people who worked it. A vivid, affectionate memoir of estate farming. Live a year on an old English manor through the eyes of the man who managed it.
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58 chapters
- 1OXFORD
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4CHAPTER PAGE
- 5GRAIN AND CHAFF FROM AN ENGLISH MANOR CHAPTER I.
- 6ALDINGTON VILLAGE—THE MANOR HOUSE—THE FARM.
- 7CHAPTER II.
- 8THE FARM BAILIFF.
- 9CHAPTER III.
- 10THE HOP FOREMAN AND THE HOP DRIER.
- 11CHAPTER IV.
- 12THE HEAD CARTER—THE CARPENTER.
- 13CHAPTER V.
- 14AN OLD FASHIONED SHEPHERD—OLD TRICKER—A GARDENER—MY SECOND HEAD CARTER—A LABOURER.
- 15CHAPTER VI.
- 16CHARACTERISTICS OF AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS AND VILLAGERS.
- 17CHAPTER VII.
- 18MACHINERY—VILLAGE POLITICS—ASPARAGUS.
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