Lark Rise to Candleford

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Harold John Massingham. Lark Rise to Candleford

Lark Rise to Candleford

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Introduction to the trilogy by H. J. MASSINGHAM

INTRODUCTION

LARK RISE

OVER TO CANDLEFORD

CANDLEFORD GREEN

LARK RISE

I

Poor People's Houses

II

A Hamlet Childhood

III

Men Afield

IV

At the 'Wagon and Horses'

V

Survivals

VI

The Besieged Generation

VII

Callers

VIII

'The Box'

IX

Country Playtime

X

Daughters of the Hamlet

XI

School

XII

Her Majesty's Inspector

XIII

May Day

XIV

To Church on Sunday

XV

Harvest Home

OVER TO CANDLEFORD

XVI

As They Were

XVII

A Hamlet Home

XVIII

'Once Upon a Time'

XIX

'A Bit of a Tell'

XX

Mrs. Herring

XXI

Over to Candleford

XXII

Kind Friends and Relations

XXIII

Sink or Swim

XXIV

Laura Looks On

XXV

Summer Holiday

XXVI

Uncle Tom's Queer Fish

XXVII

Candleford Green

XXVIII

Growing Pains

XXIX

Exit Laura

CANDLEFORD GREEN

XXX

From One Small World to Another

XXXI

On Her Majesty's Service

XXXII

The Green

XXXIII

Penny Reading

XXXIV

Neighbours

XXXV

At the Post Office

XXXVI

'Such is Life!'

XXXVII

'Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay!'

XXXVIII

Letter-Carrier

XXXIX

Change in the Village

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Harold John Massingham

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Each plough had its following of rooks, searching the clods with side-long glances for worms and grubs. Little hedgerow birds flitted hither and thither, intent upon getting their tiny share of whatever was going. Sheep, penned in a neighbouring field, bleated complainingly; and above the ma-a-ing and cawing and twittering rose the immemorial cries of the land-worker: 'Wert up!' 'Who-o-o-a!' 'Go it, Poppet!' 'Go it, Lightfoot!' 'Boo-oy, be you deaf, or be you hard of hearin', dang ye!'

After the plough had done its part, the horse-drawn roller was used to break down the clods; then the harrow to comb out and leave in neat piles the weeds and the twitch grass which infested those fields, to be fired later and fill the air with the light blue haze and the scent that can haunt for a lifetime. Then seed was sown, crops were thinned out and hoed and, in time, mown, and the whole process began again.

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