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A day in the heart of winter--I lie in bed--My books, my dogs--My daughter Bess--Flowers from Mentone--Cromwell's cabinet--My dog Mouse--The feeding of the birds--The recollection of the beautiful garden at La Mortola--The violets there--The Wenlock chimes--My curtain, its strange devices--Colouring borrowed from the macaws--All flowers not only have different shades but many colours--Mouse runs downstairs--Visitors call--The children get wet--The German governess's indignation--Bess offers to pay--Hals is carried off in Henry's dressing-gown--The next day--My friend Constance comes down and embroiders with me--Billy Buttons the robin--Bess and I visit the gardens--A word about canaries in an aviary--Discussion with Bess on saints--Auguste has cleaned Hals' suit--Burbidge walks with us--A talk about gardening--An old gardener's view of dogs--Constance has a chat with me--We talk on matters relating to the kitchen garden--Vegetables, and how to cook them--Constance's future quilt, designs from Gerard's flowers to be worked on old Shropshire hand-made linen--The servant problem--Bess's request--Nana on dogs--Alone in the chapel hall--Thomas ? Kempis's book--The stone altar--The next day--The seed list--My future borders--Bess and I go sledging--Bess tries to understand what real poverty is--How to be happy a hard matter--Bess's offer of toys 1

The beginning of spring--The spring of the North--The story of St. Milburgha--Legends of her sanctity--Belief in the efficacy of the saint's water--Wishing Well at Wenlock--First spring flowers in the red-walled garden--I see starlings--The cock chaffinch--Hals' visit--"Sister Helen" in the mouth of babes--Bess's remorse--Constance's quilt from "Gerard's Herbal"--The peace of Wenlock--Bess and her future--The difficulties of education--An interview with Burbidge--How his brother was "overlooked"--I go to Homer--Beautiful view--The story of Banister's Coppice--The arrest of the Duke of Buckingham--The Duke's curse--Its effect upon the Banister family--A visit to an old cottager--A noble life, and unclouded faith--Nanny Morgan the witch--Her life and death--Bess returns--The first snowdrops of the year--A walk home in the gloaming 58

The first signs of spring--Birds sing and call--Life everywhere--Throstle and blackbird--Nature everywhere hard at work--The monastic snails--Their use now--Only used for thrushes' breakfasts--Terror of village folks at the thought that they might be put in "ragouts"--Crocuses--Cloth of Gold--Rizzio--Sir W. Scott--White Daphne--Hellebores--Arabis--Jenny Wren--Legends about the bird--The pet robin's nest in the kettle--Stories and folklore about the robin--Lambs at play--The gentle science of angling--Dame Berners' book--The Abbot's walk--Peter "on ounts"--A talk about rooks and their ways--The carrion crow and his e?rie cry--I return late for breakfast--Prince Charming--Talk about the pug-pup--Nana hostile--Bess's suggestions of how and where to keep the pup--A talk with a child about letters--Hours in the garden--Pear tree in sheets of snow--Two hedges of roses--A bed of ranunculi--Burbidge takes me aside--"The boys" are sent to garden in the distance, and I hear about his brother and Sal--How the cure was effected--We go to Wenlock station--Arrival of the pug--Mouse jealous--Mouse appeased--Even Nana is kind to Prince Charming--An hour with Montaigne--A word about the sword flower or Gladiolus--The arrival of the swans--Bess believes them to be fairy princes--We feed them--Bess carried off by Nana--Bess will not walk with me--Bess tells me that Fr?ulein has met with an accident--A long walk alone over the fields with Mouse, after a bunch of white violets--Favourite flowers--Rapture of the birds--The lark a speck in the sky--Wood-sorrel--St. Patrick's plant--How Bess spent the afternoon--Bess's purchase--The next morning--Nana's indignation--Bess's full confession, and how she paid her debt 93

The May-pole--The dances--Bess's dress--Burbidge's fears for his garden--Old Master Theobalds is taken ill--He revives, thanks to Auguste's broth--A talk of old days--Wakes and Wishing Wells--Grinning through a horse-collar, a rustic accomplishment in the past--A walk to the Wrekin to drink out of the bird-bowls--Susie Langford--Cock-fighting at Wenlock and elsewhere--Old customs and sinful practices--Traditions about winners of the ring--Tom Moody--His pet horse "Old Soul"--Tom's wild drives and leaps--How Tom was once found in a bog--Tom and the Squire--Tom's funeral--View-holloa over the grave--An afternoon in the ruined church--The story of St. Milburgha as told by William of Malmesbury--Words about the monasteries from many sources--The pity of the wreckage and destruction of so much that was beautiful in the Reformation--Thady brings me a "Jack Squealer"--I am taken off bird-nesting--I am shown the nest of a redstart, that of a black ouzel, and one of a Jack Smut on a bramble--A beautiful night in the ruins--Narcissi in blossom like a mist of stars at my feet--I think of all who have passed through the cloisters--The end of the Abbey Church, a quarry for road-mending and for the building of pigsties and cottages--My late tulips--A long walk in the early morning--Beauty of the early hours of the day--The country in full splendour--Oak Apple Day--Little boys going to school with the badge of Stuart loyalty in their caps--The chevy--I pluck a bunch of anemones--Poor Bess in disgrace--High words between C?lestine and Mrs. Langdale--How pleasant life would be without its worries--Silence in dogs one of their chief charms and merits 189

Peace again in the household--Bedding-out the east garden--"Cherry-pie" geraniums--Scarlet verbenas--Clematis up the pillars, a future glory--Planting the tubs--Sweet-smelling plants for the evening--The hedgehog--Mouse and it are reconciled--A talk about hedgehogs--Auguste and "les escargots"--What Auguste will do with them--The growing demand in London--Bess and I enjoy the summer--The forsaken thrush's nest--Old Timothy and the yellow water wagtail's nest--A youthful memory--Old customs in Shropshire--Apple howlers--The old belief in the devil--Modern thought has blotted him out--The old Pagan Belief and how apple howling was but the last act of a Pagan rite--Domestic service and old Timothy's views--Servants old and new--How man and maid were engaged in the old days--A talk about stocks, and pillory--The old punishments at Wenlock--Judy Cookson in the scold's bridle--The sale of a wife--With a happy ending--A turn in the bee garden--White Martagon lilies, English peonies, briars, columbines, lupins, Oriental poppies, all about to open--A letter from Mrs. Stanley--Bess's views on London--A walk in the garden after a night's rain--The beauty of the rose--Old and new all are always welcome--A bush of rosemary--Old saws and customs--Evelyn's enjoyment of sweet plants--The old Hampshire garden--The burning bush--Laon Cathedral--Pinks, their delicious scent--Many sorts, but all delightful--The herb garden--A word about herbs--The single peony--Old beliefs about it--A drink of "peonina tea" from the Witch--Mustard as a manure for tulips--Woodruff, its sweet scent--Wormwood--Hester Burbidge a culler of herbs--Burbidge's despotic rule--Camomile, clove-basil, and mallow, all grown for medicinal pu 177

Oath to Support the Constitution 177

Ratification 177

Objects of a Popular Ratification 177-184

Constitution to be submitted to the Congress 185

Number of Senators 186

Qualifications for Office 186

Property Qualification 187

Seat of the National Government 189

General Pinckney's Notice respecting Slaves and Exports 189

Resolutions sent to Committee of Detail 190

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF DETAIL.--CONSTRUCTION OF THE LEGISLATURE.--TIME AND PLACE OF ITS MEETING.

Power confided to the Committee of Detail 193

Their Draft of a Constitution 194

Right of Suffrage 194

Foreign-born Inhabitants 195-196

Immigration to be encouraged 197

Qualifications for Voting 198-202

Power of Naturalization 199

Qualifications for Office 203-210

Spirit of the Constitution 211

Ratio of Representation 212-214

Money Bills 215-222

Qualifications of Senators 223, 224

Number of Senators 224-226

Method of Voting in the Senate 226-228

Vacancies in the Senate and House 229

Powers of the Senate 229-240

Senatorial Term 240-242

Parliamentary Corruption 242-244

Executive Influence 244-256

Time and Place for Elections 257

Pay of Members 258, 259

Impeachments 260-262

Quorum of each House 262

Separate Powers of each House 262-263

President of the Senate 263

Enactment of Laws 264

President's Negative 265-268

Seat of Government 268-277

Session of Congress 277, 278

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF DETAIL, CONTINUED.--THE POWERS OF CONGRESS.--THE GRAND COMPROMISES OF THE CONSTITUTION RESPECTING COMMERCE, EXPORTS, AND THE SLAVE-TRADE.

General Principles of the Powers of Legislation 279, 280

Limitations 280

Exports and the Slave-Trade 281

Fitness and Unfitness of a Tax on Exports 282

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