- 1Preface
- 2Chapter I — Aldington Village — The Manor House — The Farm
- 3Chapter II — The Farm Bailiff
- 4Chapter III — The Hop Foreman and the Hop Drier
- 5Chapter IV — The Head Carter — The Carpenter
- 6Chapter V — An Old Fashioned Shepherd — Old Tricker — A Gardener —…
- 7Chapter VI — Characteristics of Agricultural Labourers and Villagers
- 8Chapter VII — Machinery — Village Politics — Asparagus
- 9Chapter VIII — My Three Vicars — Church Restoration — Churchwarden…
- 10Chapter IX — The School Board — Religious Instruction — School Insp…
- 11Chapter X — Village Institutions: Cricket — Football — Flowershow —…
- 12Chapter XI — Dealers — Luck Money — Fairs — Sales — Effect of Clima…
- 13Chapter XII — Farm Specialists
- 14Chapter XIII — The Dairy — Cattle — Sheep — Lambs — Pigs — Poultry
- 15Chapter XIV — Orchards — Apples — Cider — Perry
- 16Chapter XV — Plums — Cherries
- 17Chapter XVI — Trees: Elm — Oak — Beech — Willow — Scots-Fir
- 18Chapter XVII — Corn — Wheat — Ridge and Furrow — Barley — Farmers N…
- 19Chapter XVIII — Hops — Insect Attacks — Hop Fairs
- 20Chapter XIX — Meteorology — Eton and Harrow at Lord’s — “Rus in Urbe”
- 21Chapter XX — Changing Course of Streams — Dewponds — A Wet Harvest…
- 22Chapter XXI — Birds: Peacocks — A White Pheasant — Rooks’ Arithmetic
- 23Chapter XXII — Pets: Susie — Cocky — Trump — Chips — Wendy — Taffy
- 24Chapter XXIII — Butterflies — Moths — Wasps
- 25Chapter XXIV — Cycling — Pageants of the Roads — Roadside Creatures…
- 26Chapter XXV — Dialect — Local Phraseology in Shakespeare — Names —…
- 27Chapter XXVI — Is Aldington (Former Site) the Roman Antona?
Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
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