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LETTER XXVI 



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Gap in Correspondence Remarkable Frost in 1890-91 

 River frozen over Skating Thickness of Ice Mor- 

 tality amongst Birds Character of the Frost Final 

 Thaw Ice breaking up on River Additions to Live 

 Stock Ducks The Drake and Rosie Pigs Pony 

 Peter . .-- . . . . . . .169 



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Rosie Madame Maes West Quay Scene at Railway 

 Station Donkeys Fictions as to Donkeys Rosie 

 and the Corn -bin Influenza Old Farm-house at 

 South Moreton Rate-books Drainage of Wallingford 

 Horseshoe Bones, etc. Mr. Davis Coins 

 Arrowheads . '' . . . . . . .177 



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Cavalry Manoeuvres (1890) Swimming the River Cow 

 swimming the River Woodcut of Bewick's described 

 Cats swimming Cold Weather Pasque Flowers 

 Winter Coats of Animals Seedling Teasels . . 186 



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Return of Winter North Winds Mortality amongst Swal- 

 lows Pasque Flowers Tulips : Cultivated W T ild 

 Tulips Cover at Chiselhampton Flowers Deadly 

 Nightshade The Grass of Parnassus Mrs. Alma 

 Tadema Curious Coincidence . . . .194 



LETTER XXX 



"The Storm-cloud of Nineteenth Century " John Ruskin 

 Cold Winds The Plague or Devil Wind Drought 



