osmaston

Updated: August 11, 2026

During my early years the neighboring regions of Osmaston and Normanton were explored by me in all their details: every hedge becoming known in the course of expeditions, now in the spring seeking birds' nests, now gathering violets or dog-roses, and later in the year collecting sometimes mushrooms, sometimes blackberries, sometimes hips and haws, crab-apples and other wild products.

- The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV