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The cottage homes of England (1909)

Dick, Stewart, Allingham, Helen Paterson, 1848-1926 · London, E. Arnold · leaf 58

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ny children have played aboutthe little garden and climbed the gnarled apple-tree;many an old man has sat on the bench by the door,warming his thin blood in the sunshine, while hisgrandchildren wake the echoes with their childishlaughter. But these were all just men and womenlike ourselves,… … THE EVOLUTION OF THE COTTAGE 23 us more by its half-forgotten familiarity than byany strangeness. It seems to belong to the goldenage of our childhood. It makes us feel young againsomehow, and we cling to it as we cling to the oldauthorised version of the Bible, rather than therevised version of…

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