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RURAL SKETCHES. 
By Thomas Miller, Author of 
“ Beauties of the Country,” etc. 
Containing 
Home Revisited 
Old Customs of Tra¬ 
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Railway Travelling 
Country Courtship 
The Old Coachman 
The Old Fisherman 
Tumbling Tommy 
Mary Gray 
Jack Grab 
Bonny Bell 
The Country Fair 
The Old Woodman 
The Country Justice 
Rural Poetry 
The Gamekeeper’s 
Hut 
A Stray Chapter 
The Haunted House 
The Subsiding of the 
Waters. 
The Old Bull’s Head 
England’s Helicon, 
etc. 
NOTES ON NETS; Or, 
The Quincunx Practically considered. 
To which are added. Miscellaneous 
Memoranda. 
By the Hon. and Rev. Charles 
Bathurst, LL.D., late Fellow of All 
Soul’s College, Oxford. 
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHRIST’S 
HOSPITAL, 
From its Foundation by King Edward 
the Sixth. 
Sixth Edition, with Six Illustrations, 
and a List of the Governors. 
By J. I. Wilson. 
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GRAY’S ELEGY IN A COUNTRY 
CHURCHYARD. 
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THE BARD. By Gray. 
LITTLE FABLES FOR LITTLE 
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ELEMENTS OF PRACTICAL 
KNOWLEDGE; 
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Explaining in Question and Answer, 
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are; what they are made of, where 
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With Illustrations from Drawings by 
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BEAUTIES OF THE COUNTRY; 
Or, Descriptions of Rural Customs, 
Objects, Scenery, and the Seasons. 
By Thomas Miller. 
Post8vo. with Twenty-six Illustrations, 
12s. cloth. 
By the Author of the History of 
British Fishes, 
A PAPER ON THE 
GROWTH OF THE SALMON IN 
FRESH WATER. 
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