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turn and throw down the milk, or otherwise 

 interrupt the process. Piggeries and dove- 

 cotes need not be described, as they may be 

 seen in other situations. The brew-house and 

 bake-house join the dwelling. 



I have ranged the farm-yard with my note- 

 book in my hand, and can find nothing more to 

 detain us at present, unless it be to notice some 

 large wooden frames, which are used as cow- 

 cribs, to contain winter fodder for cattle. 



In the mean time I will ascend a rising 

 ground, whence the greater part of the farm 

 can be surveyed. Our four hundred acres con- 

 sist of about thirty-five inclosures, divided, as 

 is common in this country, and other wood- 

 land parts, by ditches and hedge-rows, gar- 

 nished with the varied forms of stately timber 

 and flowery leafy shrubs. Of those inclosures 

 twenty-one are arable, or plough-land, amount- 



