ledlow

Updated: July 31, 2026

Ledlow, the farmer's wife, counted her money and reckoned her week's marketing expenses during the first lesson all news to those below were stale subjects here. Old William sat in the centre of the front row, his violoncello between his knees and two singers on each hand. Behind him, on the left, came the treble singers and Dick; and on the right the tranter and the tenors.

Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school