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Walks and talks of an American farmer in England (Part 1 of 2)

Chapter 3: LIST OF CUTS,
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A travel diary records an extended journey through English ports, towns, and countryside, beginning with a sea voyage and shipboard encounters. It balances lively urban sketches—harbour life, markets, and visible poverty—with close walks through villages, churchyards, hedgerows, and farmsteads. Practical descriptions of farming methods, implements, livestock, and labourers’ routines are interwoven with observations on local institutions, customs, and education. Anecdote and reflection combine to offer both hands-on agricultural information and broader commentary on manners, architecture, and rural character.

LIST OF CUTS,

DRAWN ON WOOD BY A. FIELD.

FROM SKETCHES BY THE AUTHOR.

PAGE
1. The School-house (vignette, title page).
2. The English Coaster (calm), 45
3. The English Coaster (squalls), 47
4. The English Plough (vertical), 103
5. The English Plough (horizontal), 103
6. The Timber House (old farm-house), 107
7. Old English Domestic Architecture (Chester, 16th century), 124
8. Old English Domestic Architecture (Chester, 16th century), 149
9. The Clod Crusher, 180
10. The Uley Cultivator, 182
11. The Stage Wagon, 202
12. Old English Domestic Architecture (the village schoolmaster’s cottage), 207