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But he did not mind it, because he fell in with an old man cutting turf, who told him all about turf-cutting, and gave him a dead adder. And then he went up a hill, and saw a grand prospect; and wanted to go again, and make out the geography of the country from Cary's old county maps, which were the only maps in those days.
You have a right over the turf-cutting of Pillinmore, and over the alabaster quarries near Trent. Moreover, you own all the country of Penneth Chase; and you have a mountain with an ancient town on it. The town is called Vinecaunton; the mountain is called Moilenlli. All which gives you an income of forty thousand pounds a year.
As summer advances turf-cutting and hay-making begins; while the autumn months are principally devoted to the repairing of their houses, manuring the grass lands, and killing and curing of sheep for exportation, as well as for their own use during the winter.
Denny arrived in the gun-room, where Ormiston sat smoking, while talking over with Julius the turf-cutting claims of certain squatters on Spendle Flats -arrived, not to summon the latter to further readings of the great Elizabethan poet, but to say to the former: "Will you please come at once, sir? Her ladyship is sitting up.
The cow-keeping, the bread-making, the fattening of pigs and curing of bacon, were actually carried on here thirty years after Cobbett's time, besides other things not mentioned by him, such as turf-cutting on the heath and wheat-growing in the gardens. But it was the common that made all this possible.
One autumn, when he was doing some work for myself, he begged for a day or two away in order to take a job at turf-cutting. Now, lawn-turfs are cut to a standard size, three feet by one, wherefore I remarked: "Why, that's nearly a mile you have cut." "Oh, is it?" he said. "But it didn't take long.
They wanted rest, in which to recover strength for taking up again the interesting business of living; but they approached their daily life their pig-keeping and bread-making, their mowing and thatching and turf-cutting and gardening, and the whole round of country tasks almost in a welcoming spirit, matching themselves against its demands and proving their manhood by their success.
The son, a grown man, waited from his turf-cutting to help in our discussion; the wife was abroad that day, and one daughter was just starting for market with a web of homespun cloth which they had dressed in the household.
And then there would be turf-cutting, and the deadly stings given to men by eels. All these things I am knowing well." "'Tis a grand lot to know," said I, "but let us be talking of London. Have you been hearing of London?" "I have been hearing much about the town," said Paddy. "Father Corrigan was often talking of it.
Here the conditions hardly required such wholesale co-operation as that; but in lesser matters both kindliness and economy would counsel the people to be mutually helpful, and there is no reason to doubt that the counsel was taken. Those who had donkey-carts would willingly bring home turfs for those who had none, in return for help with their own turf-cutting.
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