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The charm of gardens (1910)

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. & C. Black · leaf 209

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eapons of theircraft arranged about them—jam jars of water, wire,bass, rows of little sticks on the end of which button-holes are stuck. And they have wonderful contri-vances for keeping their money, ancient purses rustylike many of themselves, in which greasy pennies andwet sixpences wallow in… … TOWN GARDENS And they regard such evidence as withered and wetflower stalks with half-humorous scorn. For all theymay not be well favoured, and a pretty flower-woman isas rare as a dead donkey, still, for me, they have a certaindingy dignity, or rather a natural picturesque quality asof lichen on…

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