Category: Humour
ONE MORNING A FEW MONTHS AGO A foreigner under the influence of an aeroplane descended somewhat hurriedly in a broad and--as he ascertained--a soft meadow in Nethershire; and while he was picking up his matches preparatory to lighting his cigarette--he has always a cigarette i...
ONE MORNING A FEW MONTHS AGO A foreigner under the influence of an aeroplane descended somewhat hurriedly in a broad and--as he ascertained--a soft meadow in Nethershire; and wh...
2. CHAPTER TWO.--OUTSIDE THE VILLAGEON A VERY DIFFERENT PLANE OF INterest I regard my experience of two delightful old people whom I found living, the one a mile or two on the Brindlington side of Thurswell, the o...
3. CHAPTER THREE--THE VILLAGE VILLASTHURSWELL IS UNDOUBTEDLY AN IDeal English village situated in the midst of an agricultural county, and far away from the unhealthy and demoralising influences of trade. It pride...
4. CHAPTER FOUR--THE COMEDIES OF THE COUNTRY HOUSEIT WAS THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE second generation of one of the shirt-sleeves families of the midlands who took a lease of Nethershire Castle, the finest mansion in our neighbo...
5. CHAPTER FIVE--THE COUNTY, OLD AND CRUSTEDWHEN THE LATE MR. W. P. FRITH WAS AT the height of his fame, and engravings of his “Derby Day” and “The Railway Station” contested for prominence on the flowery flock-papered wa...
6. CHAPTER SIX--THE OLD COUNTY TOWNIF OUR THURSWELL IS A TYPICAL English village, assuredly Mallingham is a typical country town, only inclining to the picturesque side rather than the sordid. Like most picturesq...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN--THE PEOPLE OF MALLINGHAMONE OF THE PECULIARITIES OF MALLINGHAM is the Mayor, for Mallingham has a Mayor all to itself, except when, by virtue of his office, he spends a happy day on various County Benc...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT--THE PUSHING PROVINCIAL TOWNTHE MILD AND BASHFUL ENTERPRISE of Mallingham is made to look ridiculous when contrasted with the unblushing business energy of Burford, that bustling town of twenty thousand in...
9. CHAPTER NINE--RED-TILED SOCIETYALL THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM at Burford, as I have ventured to suggest. But the majority of the inhabitants think that they are. Probably at one time they were; but with th...
10. CHAPTER TEN--LESSER ENGLISH COUNTRY TOWNSI REMEMBER WITH WHAT ADROITNESS several years ago a distinguished dramatist explained to a pressing interviewer what was his intention in writing a certain play of his which was...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN--THE CATHEDRAL TOWNBROADMINSTER IS ONE OF THE LESSER cathedral towns of England. There is nothing remarkable about the Minster except its antiquity. It does not convey the idea of vastness as do s...
12. CHAPTER TWELVE--A CLOSE CORPORATIONNO ONE WHO HAS LIVED FOR ANY length of time in a cathedral town can fail to appreciate the perfection of Anthony Trollope's Barchester series of novels. In my opinion no more ar...
13. CHAPTER THIRTEEN--AMONG THE AMATEURSTHE ARTISTIC INFLUENCES OF A CATHEDRAL with a good organist and a capable choir in any town cannot be questioned; and so it is that the concerts which take place with some frequ...
14. CHAPTER FOURTEEN--THE LIGHTER SIDE OF CLERICAL LIFEI DO NOT THINK THAT, TAKING THEM all round, the Cathedral dignitaries of Broadminster can be accused of assuming a greater importance than is due to their position; but a story...
15. CHAPTER FIFTEEN--THE CROQUET LAWNSAn exhaustive, or even a perfunctory, reference to sport is out of place in any description of the lighter side of life in the provinces, for people in all levels of life take t...
16. CHAPTER SIXTEEN--ART & THE ARTFUL IN THE PROVINCESA GOOD MANY PEOPLE ARE OF THE opinion that Art and the appreciation of Art are making considerable progress in this country, but others are inclined to be despondent on this sub...