 | Edward Irving Carlyle, John Doyle - 1904 - Страниц: 364
...the service of the East India Company as a private soldier. He himself began work at an early age. ' I do not remember the time when I did not earn my...and the rooks from the pease. When I first trudged a-field, with my wooden bottle and my satchel swung over my shoulders, I was hardly able to climb the... | |
 | Edward Irving Carlyle, John Doyle - 1904 - Страниц: 364
...the service of the East India Company as a private soldier. He himself began work at an early age. ' I do not remember the time when I did not earn my...and the rooks from the pease. When I first trudged a-field, with my wooden bottle and my satchel swung over my shoulders, I was hardly able to climb the... | |
 | Edward Irving Carlyle, John Doyle - 1904 - Страниц: 368
...the service of the East India Company as a private soldier. He himself began work at an early age. ' I do not remember the time when I did not earn my...and the rooks from the pease. When I first trudged a-field, with my wooden bottle and my satchel swung over my shoulders, I was hardly able to climb the... | |
 | Ramsden Balmforth - 1912 - Страниц: 252
...of his boyish country life are very fresh and vivid reading. " I do not remember the time," he says, "when I did not earn my living. My first occupation was driving the small birds from the turnip seed, and the rooks from the peas. When I first trudged afield, with my wooden bottle and my... | |
 | George Douglas Howard Cole - 1925 - Страниц: 504
...four years between the ages of eldest and youngest. All four were speedily employed on the land. " A father like ours, it will be readily supposed, did...earn my living. My first occupation was driving the birds from the turnip-seed, and the rooks from the peas. When I first trudged afield, with my wooden... | |
 | 1925 - Страниц: 900
...farmer, and his home was on the outskirts of Farnham in Surrey. William, his fourth son, says : — "I do not remember the time when I did not earn my own living. My first occupation was driving the birds from the turnip-seed, and the rooks from the... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1927 - Страниц: 186
...but three years and three quarters difference between the age of the oldest and that of the youngest. A father like ours, it will be readily supposed, did...birds from the turnip-seed, and the rooks from the peas. When I first trudged a-field, with my wooden bottle and my satchel swung over my shoulders, I... | |
 | Robert John Stewart McDowall - 1927 - Страниц: 344
...moment to glance at the vivid picture he gives us of it. " I do not remember the time," he writes, " when I did not earn my living. My first occupation...birds from the turnip-seed, and the rooks from the peas. When I first trudged a-field, with my wooden bottle and satchel swung over my shoulders, I was... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1867 - Страниц: 942
.... I do not remember the time [says William, the third (?) of these boys] when I did not earn my own living. My first occupation was driving the small...and the rooks from the pease. When I first trudged afield, with my wooden bottle and my satchel swung over my shoulders, I was hardly able to climb the... | |
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When I first trudged afield with my wooden bottle and my satchel swung over my shoulders, I was hardly able to climb the gates and stiles, and at the close of the day to reach home was a task of infinite difficulty. 
