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Title: The Hills and the Vale

Author: Richard Jefferies

Commentator: Edward Thomas

Release Date: March 20, 2010 [EBook #31710]

Language: English

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THE HILLS AND THE VALE

_All rights reserved_

THE HILLS AND THE VALE

BY
RICHARD JEFFERIES

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
EDWARD THOMAS

LONDON: DUCKWORTH & CO.
3 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN
1909

TO
JOHN WILLIAMS
OF WAUN WEN

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION ix

CHOOSING A GUN 1

SKATING 22

MARLBOROUGH FOREST 27

VILLAGE CHURCHES 35

BIRDS OF SPRING 43

THE SPRING OF THE YEAR 54

VIGNETTES FROM NATURE 70

A KING OF ACRES 79

THE STORY OF SWINDON 104

UNEQUAL AGRICULTURE 134

VILLAGE ORGANIZATION 151

THE IDLE EARTH 207

AFTER THE COUNTY FRANCHISE 224

THE WILTSHIRE LABOURER 247

ON THE DOWNS 270

THE SUN AND THE BROOK 280

NATURE AND ETERNITY 284

THE DAWN 306

INTRODUCTION

This book consists of three unpublished essays and of fifteen
reprinted from _Longman's Magazine_, _Fraser's Magazine_,