English ways and by-ways

TO E. S. P. WHO KNOWS JOHN AND RUTH DOBSON AS WELL AS I DO AND CAN BEAR WITNESS TO THE TRUTH OF THIS NARRATIVE "ENGLISH WAYS AND BY-WAYS" IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

This service was memorable for another reason. For the first time in my life I prayed for the Kaiser. Indeed, it was the first time I had ever heard him prayed for! This gave gr...

The entrance to the stable-yard at the inn in Peterborough, as is frequently the case in old inns, leads under a narrow archway. These were built when the farmer's two-wheeled g...

Such a hill we soon reached. But as we began the descent I saw that it was steeper than I had supposed, and so began the descent slowly. But the car soon gained a greater speed...

It was the houses which tempted me. There was an infinite variety to choose from--Elizabethan, Tudor, Jacobean (I am not sure I am always right about the period)--but I recogniz...

There was a pasture of about twenty acres in extent, in which a flock of sheep were feeding. At a given signal a young man--evidently a farmer--stepped forth with his dog, to wh...

He is an extraordinary man--not only a good classical scholar but also a notable mathematician. He is quite at home in all the scientific theories which are the vogue to-day, an...

"However, that does not signify now--what I was going to tell you was, that he was detained longer than he had expected, and wrote me to join him in a place called Cheyenne. So...

"I have never understood this craze for bathrooms myself," he continued; "I think it far more comfortable to have the maid bring the tub into the room at the same time she draws...

Her brother, on the other hand, was a most interesting person, so much so that I listened so intently to his conversation that I forgot all about John and his partner. When, how...

Another long silence, and then he continued: "Moreover, I resent any attempt on the part of a parson to dictate to me what I should or should not pray for. I consider such thing...

I said to myself that, unlike most Irishmen when they migrate, he had not bettered himself. As if he read my thought, as perhaps he did, he added, with a glance at his old and t...

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