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    Town Versus Country
    Town Versus Country
    Town Versus Country
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    Town Versus Country

    By Mary Russell Mitford

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Town Versus Country

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      Title: Town Versus Country

      Author: Mary Russell Mitford

      Release Date: October 2, 2007 [EBook #22836]

      Last Updated: January 9, 2013

      Language: English

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      TOWN VERSUS COUNTRY.

      By Mary Russell Mitford

      I'm desperately afear'd, Sue, that that brother of thine will turn out a jackanapes, was the apostrophe of the good yeoman Michael Howe, to his pretty daughter Susan, as they were walking one fine afternoon in harvest through some narrow and richly wooded lanes, which wound between the crofts of his farm of Rutherford West, situate in that out-of-the-way part of Berkshire which is emphatically called the Low Country, for no better reason that I can discover than that it is the very hilliest part of the royal county. I'm sadly afear'd, Sue, that he'll turn out a jackanapes!—and the stout farmer brandished the tall paddle which served him at once as a walking stick and a weeding-hook, and began vigorously eradicating the huge thistles which grew by the roadside, as a mere vent for his vexation. You'll see that he'll come back an arrant puppy, quoth Michael Howe.

      Oh, father! don't say so, rejoined Susan, why should you think so hardly of poor William—our own dear William, whom we have not seen these three years? What earthly harm has he done?

      "Harm, girl! Look at his letters! You know you're ashamed yourself to take 'em of the postman. Pink paper, forsooth, and blue ink, and a seal with bits

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