I laughed and kissed my little girl. “We are poor creatures,” I said, “we girls and women. We have all for centuries wanted to buy some boy, and haven’t yet found out where or how to do it.”
“GOOD-BYE! GOOD-BYE!”
A few days later, Bess and I found ourselves on the Wenlock station platform. Masses of boxes surrounded us, and Mouse, with a label tied to her collar, sat watching us intently.
“Why aren’t you glad to go—glad as I am, mamsie?” cried Bess, impetuously. “You know the doctor said that it would make you quite better, and we can bathe together in the sea. Besides,” added my little maid, with wisdom beyond her years, “if you only go, you are always much gladder to come back.”
We jumped into a carriage, and Mouse looked out of the window. Burbidge took my last injunctions. Then the train moved off, and the ruins and old town of Wenlock faded before my eyes. “Good-bye, dear old place!” I murmured. And as we dashed on, faintly sounding on the breeze, I caught the last notes of the distant chimes—“Good-bye! Good-bye!”
INDEX
| [A] | [B] | [C] | [D] | [E] | [F] | [G] | [H] | [I] | [J] | [K] |
| [L] | [M] | [N] | [O] | [P] | [Q] | [R] | [S] | [T] | [V] | [W] |
- [A]
- Abbey Farmery, [233], [279]
- Ales-hoof, [262]
- All Fools’ Day, [132]
- Almonds, [131]
- Amiel, [2]
- Anemones, [16], [228]
- varieties, [289]
- Annuals, [283]
- Anstice, Squire, [168]
- Apple Howlers, [242]
- Arabis, [98]
- Ashfield Hall, [53]
- Austrian briar, [137]
- Ayrshire briars, [283]
- [B]
- Bachelors’ Buttons, [173]
- Bacon, Lord, [300]
- Bacon’s garden, [293]
- Baily Clerke, Sir John, alias John Cressage, [153]
- Banister or Banaistre, [83]
- Banister’s Coppice, [83]
- Beans, Mont d’Or, [50]
- Bee charms, [140], [141]
- Bee hives, [139]
- Bees, [137], [138]
- Berners, Dame Juliana, [100]
- Birds’ country names, [179]
- Blackbird, [94]
- Blackcap, [16], [220]
- Black ouzel (blackbird), [184]
- Blore Heath, [155]
- Bog myrtle, [176]
- Borde, Andrew, [300]
- Boscobel, [227]
- Botelar, Sir Thomas, [151], [152], [153]
- Botryoides hyacinths, [136]
- Bouncing Bess (Valerian), [173]
- Bridle, the scold’s, [247]
- Browne, Sir Thomas, [156]
- Buckingham, Duke of, [83]
- Bull-baiting, [166]
- Bull-ring, [163], [250]
- [C]
- Caer Caradoc, [273]
- Camden, [211]
- Canaries, [36]
- Cap St. Martin, [11]
- Carrion crow, [104], [105]
- Chaffinch, [8], [65], [185]
- Chapter House, [209]
- Charité, La, [95]
- Charles I., [53]
- Charles II., [227]
- Chartres, [42]
- Chaucer, [171]
- Chaucer’s garden, [298]
- Chimes, [12], [321]
- Chionodoxa, [64], [136]
- Choisya ternata, [233]
- Clee Hill, [79]
- Clematis Flammula, [40]
- Clematis Jackmanni, [40]
- Clematis Montana, [40]
- Cloisters, [173]
- Clugniac monks, [161]
- Clun, [77], [109]
- Cobbett, [213]
- Cock-fighting, [199], [200], [201]
- Columbines, [251]
- Comus, [314]
- Convolvulus, [51]
- Corncrake, [226]
- Corsica, [12]
- Corvehill, Sir William, [153]
- Craven Arms, [81]
- Cressage, John, alias Sir John Baily Clerke, [153]
- Crimson Rambler, [40]
- Crocuses, [96], [97], [135]
- Cromwell, Oliver, [5]
- Cromwell, Thomas, [211]
- Crown Imperials, [136]
- Cuckoo, [148], [149], [185], [285]
- Cuckoo’s Cup, [196]
- [D]
- Daffodils, garden varieties, [174]
- Dahlias, [109]
- Daphne, [9], [17]
- Darwin Tulips, [136]
- Delphiniums, [281]
- Devil, Timothy Theobald’s views on the, [242]
- Digby, Sir Kenelm, [320]
- Dog-rose, [226]
- [E]
- Ecall (woodpecker), [260]
- Eckford’s sweet peas, [51]
- Edge Wood, [181], [182]
- Elizabeth of York’s bower, [295]
- Ellesmere, [166]
- Escargots, [95], [96], [238]
- Evelyn, John, [295]
- Exeter book, [148]
- [F]
- Fanshawe, Sir Richard, [302]
- Farley Dingle, [83], [226]
- Favourite flowers, [120]
- Forester, Squire, [206], [207]
- Fraxinella Dictamnus (Burning Bush), [173], [256], [257]
- [G]
- Games in Shropshire, [304]-[12]
- Gardens, [290]
- at La Mortola, [11]
- Geraniums, sweet-scented, [234], [235]
- “Gerard’s Herbal,” [43], [74], [301]
- Ghosts of Ludlow Castle, [315]
- Gladioli, varieties, [116]
- Godwin, Bishop, [211]
- Grass, bulbs in, [163]
- Grass of Parnassus, [124]
- Greenfinch, [122]
- [H]
- Hampton Court, [295]
- Hanbury, Sir Thomas
- his garden at La Mortola, [11]
- Hedgehog, [236], [237]
- Heliotrope, [234]
- Hellebores, [97]
- Henricus Stephanus, [254]
- Henry VIII., [212]
- Herbert, George, [302]
- Herbs, [258]
- Hesperides, [297]
- Highclere, [290]
- High Ercall, [302]
- Hill, Thomas, [300]
- Homer, [144]
- Honeysuckle, [226]
- Hotel Bellevue, [11]
- [I]
- Irises, Spanish, [136]
- [J]
- Jackdaws, [9], [173]
- Jack squealer, [215]
- Jay, [182]
- Johnnie’s watch, [197]
- Judy Cookson, [247]
- [K]
- Kenilworth, [299]
- King, Collins, [224]
- King-cups, [121]
- Kiss-in-the-ring, [199]
- Kitty wren, [145]
- Kynaston, Humphrey, [110]
- [L]
- Langley, [292]
- Laon, [256]
- Latimer, [213]
- Lawson, [301]
- Leper’s chamber, [173]
- Leveret, the, and “Mouse,” [273]
- Lilium Auratum, [173]
- Lilium Martagon, [173]
- Longleat, [254]
- Longmynd, [273]
- Loppington, [167]
- Love in the Mist, [51]
- Lucky flower, marsh marigold, [191]
- Ludlow Castle, [314], [315]
- [M]
- Macaws’ colours, [14]
- Madeley manor, [153]
- Madeley wakes, [167]
- Magpie, [182]
- Malope, [51]
- Malory, [2]
- Manetti, stock for roses, [136]
- Markham, [300]
- Marsh marigold, a lucky flower, [191]
- Martagon lilies, [173]
- Mary proclaimed queen, [154]
- Masque of flowers, [303]
- May Day, [166], [171], [172]
- Mediterranean, [12]
- Mentone, [11]
- “Mezeron tree,” [62]
- Milburgha, Saint, [30], [32], [59], [60]
- Milton, John, [6], [313]
- Mistress Tuggy’s bower, [299]
- Montaigne, [3], [115]
- Moody, Tom, [202], [203], [204]
- Moor-hen, [134]
- Moor Park (Herefordshire), [296]
- Moor Park (Surrey), [296], [297]
- More, Sir Thomas, [84]
- Morris dancers, [195]
- Mortola (La), gardens at, [11], [12]
- Moss roses, [281]
- Mouse-ear, [259]
- Mytton, Sheriff, [83]
- [N]
- Nanny Morgan, [89], [90]
- Napoleon, [12]
- Narcissus, Stella and Cynosure, [162]
- Nest, a forsaken, [240]
- Nonsuch, [294], [301]
- [O]
- Oak-apples, [226], [227]
- Oaken gates, [168]
- Old Soul, [203], [204]
- Oreilles d’Ours, [176]
- Osborne, Dorothy, [297]
- Ounts, [101]
- [P]
- Palm Sunday, [150]
- Parson Mortimer, [168]
- Patrick’s (Saint) shamrock, [123]
- Peacock, [9]
- Pear varieties, [108]
- Penance, [250]
- Penzance briars, [283]
- Peonies, [251], [259]
- Peonies (tree), [282]
- Periwinkles, [121]
- Piers Ploughman, [149]
- Pigeons, [9]
- Pinks, [258]
- Pittosporum, [11]
- Poke-puddings (tomtits), [8], [239]
- Poppies, Oriental, [251]
- Poppies, Shirley, [52]
- Posenhall, [155]
- Primroses, [121], [159]
- Primula, Cashmeriana and Japonica, [176]
- Punishments, ancient, [246]
- [Q]
- Quice (wood-pigeons), [94], [184]
- [R]
- Ranunculi, [108], [109], [228]
- Raven’s bowl, the, [196]
- Redstart, [217], [218]
- Ribes, [135]
- Ring-ouzel, [219]
- Robin, [29], [99]
- Roger de Montgomery, [33], [161], [313]
- Rooks, [9], [101], [102], [103], [159]
- Rose haters, [319], [320]
- Rose, Japanese, [137]
- Roses, hybrid tea, [135]
- Roses, old, [43]
- Roses, red, [299]
- Roses, tea, [40]
- Roses, varieties, [108], [282], [318]
- Rosemary, [255]
- Royal oak, [227]
- Rue, [292]
- Rupert, Prince, [53]
- [S]
- Scilla Sibirica, [162]
- Servant hiring, [244]
- Severn, [147]
- Sheinton Street, [56]
- Sherlot Forest, [121]
- Shinewood, [83], [84]
- Shipton, [84], [291]
- Shropshire games, [304]-[12]
- Silverton, [79]
- “Sister Helen,” [66], [71]
- Skylark, [122], [123]
- Spital Street, [154]
- Stafford, Lord, [320]
- Starlings, [8], [63]
- Stocks, [246]
- Stonhill coppice, [168]
- Storm-cock, [94], [233]
- Swans, [134], [135]
- [T]
- Temple Garden, [292]
- Temple, Sir William, [297]
- Theobalds, [299]
- Thomas à Kempis, [48]
- Thrush, [95], [239], [253]
- Tiberius, the Emperor, [269]
- Tomtits, [8], [239]
- Tong Church, [299]
- Tradescant, John, [301]
- [V]
- Violas, [235]
- Violets, [94]
- [W]
- Wagtail, yellow, [240]
- Wake Sunday, [196]
- Watch-tower, [9]
- Well, St. Milburgha’s, [61]
- Wenlock station, [321]
- Wife, sale of a, [247]
- Wormwood, [261]
- Wrekin, [147], [197]
- Wrekin doves, [249]
- Wrens, [8], [98]
THE END