A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire

by J. Arthur Gibbs

AUTUMN

Remarks on Country Life--Thrashing--The Flail--Gipsies--Harvest Feasts--Fifty Years Ago--The Wolds in Autumn--By the Stream--Wildfowl--Migration of Birds--Lapwings--Winter Visitants--Thunderstorms--Glow-Worms--A Brilliant Meteor--Night on the Hills--The "Blowing-Stone"--Christmas Day on the Cotswolds--A Solar Halo--Hamlet Festivities--Tom Peregrine Baffled--The Mummers Play--The Victorian Era--The True Days of "Merrie England"--Carpe Diem.

[CHAPTER XVIII.]

WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN

A Glorious Panorama--Peregrine as Secretary--The Light of Setting Suns--Conclusion.

[APPENDIX.]

GEORGE RIDLER'S OVEN

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

• [PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY MESSRS. SHAWCROSS.]
• STOKE POGES CHURCH.
• THE OLD MANOR HOUSE.
• [INSCRIPTION ON PORCH OF MANOR HOUSE.]
• [INTERIOR OF MANOR HOUSE.]
• [IN THE GARDEN.]
• [A COTSWOLD MANOR HOUSE.]
• COTSWOLD COTTAGES.
• [A FARMHOUSE BY THE COLN.]
• AN OLD COTTAGE.
• [THE HAMLET.]
• ON THE WOLDS.
• [OXEN PLOUGHING.]
• THE OLD CUSTOMER.
• THE OLD MILL, ABLINGTON.
• [THE COLN NEAR BIBURY.]
• A BRIDGE OVER THE COLN.
• [A DISH OF FISH.]
• BURFORD PRIORY.
• [BURFORD PRIORY.]
• THE MANOR HOUSE, COLN-ST.-ALDWYNS.
• [BIBURY STREET.]
• [ARLINGTON ROW.]
• VILLAGE CRICKETERS.
• HAWKING.
• [BIBURY COURT.]
• THE ABBEY GATEWAY, CIRENCESTER.
• [MARKET-PLACE, CIRENCESTER.]
• AN OLD BARN.
• [THE "PILL" BRIDGE.]
• IN BIBURY VILLAGE.
• [SIDE VIEW OF MANOR HOUSE.]
• BIBURY MILL.
• [BELOW THE "PILL".]
• ABLINGTON MANOR.
• [AN OLD-FASHIONED LABOURING COUPLE.]
• COLN-ST.-ALDWYNS.