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We were only a party of six. An old Miss Harpenden, who goes everywhere to play bridge, and Malcolm, and one of Lady Ver's young men, and I. Sir Charles is absent, and brings himself back. He fiddles with the knives and forks, and sprawls on the table rather, too. He looks at Lady Ver with admiration in his eyes. It is true, then, in the intervals of Paris, I suppose, she can make his heart beat.
Betts a gold medal and there was an American gentleman who spoke and he said as how this place of Mr. Betts next to that place, Harpenden way Rothamsted, I think they call it was most 'ighly thought of in the States and Mr. Betts had done fine. And that's the cattle-station over there, miss, where they fattens 'em, and weighs 'em.
The details of the recent experiments, some of the results of which we have now described, will, it is hoped, shortly appear in the Journal of the Chemical Society of London. Harpenden, July 21. By Professor CHARLES O'NEILL. Twenty-eight years ago Mr. Perkin discovered the first of the aniline dyes.
They can never keep it up, you know." "Much you know," said the Waters. "Over you go, old man. You can take the full head of us now. Those new steel axle-straps of yours can stand anything. Come along, Raven's Gill, Harpenden, Callton Rise, Batten's Ponds, Witches' Spring, all together! Let's show these gentlemen how to work!" "But but I thought it was a decoration.
"Whether we, of course, had power enough for the job. It will be a biggish contract. There's all Harpenden Brook to be considered and Batten's Ponds as well, and Witches' Fountain, and the Churt's Hawd system. "We've power enough for anything in the world," said the Waters. "The only question is whether you could stand the strain if we came down on you full head."
Curiously enough I had known the famous jockey at Harpenden when he was a little boy, and I believe used to come round with vegetables. "I'll send you a dog, Miss Terry, that won't be any trouble. He's got a very good head, a first-rate tail, stuck in splendidly, but his legs are too long. He'd follow you to America!" Prophetic words!
It is almost navigable, and we come from there away." They slid over solid and compact till the Wheel thudded under their weight. "Raven's Gill Brook," said the Rat. "I never heard of Raven's Gill." "We are the waters of Harpenden Brook down from under Callton Rise. Phew! how the race stinks compared with the heather country."
"And Harpenden Brook is north of Raven's Gill and runs into Raven's Gill at the foot of Callton Rise, where ilex trees are, and we come from there!" These were the glassy, clear waters of the high chalk. "And Batten's Ponds, that are fed by springs, have been led through Trott's Wood, taking the spare water from the old Witches' Spring under Churt Haw, and we we we are their combined waters!"
"Sir John Bennett Lawes, the founder of the Rothamsted Experiment Station, the oldest in the world, on his own private estate at Harpenden, England, began his investigations in the interest of practical agricultural science soon after coming into possession of Rothamsted in 1834.
Dolphin Smith, the farmer, who had been there over forty years, I spent in 1902 some time in the same parlour in which the Lambs had been entertained. Harpenden, on the north-west, has grown immensely since Lamb's day, and the houses at the Folly, between Wheathampstead and the Cherry Trees, are new; but Mackery End, or Mackrye End as the farmer's waggons have it, remains unencroached upon.
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