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Old Country Life
S. Baring-Gould and F. D. Bedford
The last squire, the hunting parson, the old garden, and the great country houses filled a vanishing England. Sabine Baring-Gould gathers the characters and settings of old country life, complete with a garden song. A rich, nostalgic portrait of the rural gentry's world. Wander the estates and villages of a fading country order.
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21 chapters
- 1OLD COUNTRY LIFE.
- 2CONTENTS.
- 3LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 4CHAPTER I. OLD COUNTY FAMILIES.
- 5CHAPTER II. THE LAST SQUIRE.
- 6CHAPTER III. COUNTRY HOUSES.
- 7CHAPTER IV. THE OLD GARDEN.
- 8"IN A GARDEN SWEET." Arranged by F. W. Bussell, Esq., M.A.
- 9CHAPTER V. THE COUNTRY PARSON.
- 10CHAPTER VI. THE HUNTING PARSON.
- 11PARSON HOGG. Arranged by the Rev. H. Fleetwood Sheppard, M.A.]
- 12CHAPTER VII. COUNTRY DANCES.
- 13CHAPTER VIII. OLD ROADS.
- 14CHAPTER IX. FAMILY PORTRAITS.
- 15CHAPTER X. THE VILLAGE MUSICIAN.
- 16CHAPTER XI. THE VILLAGE BARD.
- 17CHAPTER XII. OLD SERVANTS.
- 18CHAPTER XIII. THE HUNT.
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