| 1849 - 428 páginas
...come forwards, and the same process is repeated until all the tenants have received their allotments. The most singular feature of this very intricate system...sweep with his scythe, but is obliged to hack down his grass in an inconvenient manner as he is best able. • The Gebuhr, on taking to his yard-land, had... | |
| Joshua Williams - 1880 - 448 páginas
...others come forwards, and the same process is repeated until all the tenants have received allotments. The most singular feature of this very intricate system...sweep with his scythe, but is obliged to hack down his grass in an inconvenient manner as he is best able." The " frying pan" spoken of above appears to be... | |
| William Cunningham - 1890 - 654 páginas
...come forwards, and the same process is repeated until all the tenants have received their allotments.. ..The most singular feature of this very intricate...narrow a strip, that he has not width enough to take a fall sweep with his scythe, but is obliged to hack down his grass in an inconvenient manner, as he... | |
| William Cunningham - 1890 - 680 páginas
...forwards, and the same process is repeated until all the tenants have received their allotments.... The most singular feature of this very intricate system...all drawn each man goes, armed with his scythe and cnts out his mark on the piece of ground which belongs to him, and which in many cases lies in so narrow... | |
| W. Cunningham, William Cunningham - 1896 - 740 páginas
...come forwards, and the same process is repeated until all the tenants have received their allotments. ...The most singular feature of this very intricate...drawn each man goes, armed with his scythe, and cuts ont his mark on the piece of ground which belongs to him, and which in many cases lies in so narrow... | |
| Frederick John Snell - 1911 - 400 páginas
...forwards, and the same process is repeated until all the tenants have received their allotments. " The most singular feature of this very intricate system...sweep with his scythe, but is obliged to hack down his grass in an inconvenient manner, as he is best able." THE WASTE We have next to deal with the waste.... | |
| Mabel Elizabeth Simpson, Mary A. Adams - 1927 - 768 páginas
...come forwards, and the same process is repeated until all the tenants have received their allotments.. ..The most singular feature of this very intricate...sweep with his scythe, but is obliged to hack down his grass in an inconvenient manner, as he is best able." This may be a survival, or it may have arisen... | |
| William Cunningham - 1905 - 772 páginas
...come forwards, and the same process is repeated until all the tenants have received their allotments.. ..The most singular feature of this very intricate...each man goes, armed with his scythe, and cuts out bis mark on the piece of ground which belongs to him, and which in many cases lies in so narrow a strip,... | |
| William Cunningham - 1968 - 652 páginas
...come forwards, and the same process is repeated until all the tenants have received their allotments.. ..The most singular feature of this very intricate system remains to be told. When the lots arc all drawn each man goes, armed with his scythe and cuts out his mark on the piece of ground which... | |
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