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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Arthur H. Savory This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Grain and Chaff from an English Manor Author: Arthur H. Savory Release Date: August 21, 2004 [EBook #13239] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GRAIN AND CHAFF *** Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Keith M. Eckrich, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreaders Team GRAIN AND CHAFF FROM AN ENGLISH MANOR By ARTHUR H. SAVORY OXFORD BASIL BLACKWELL 1920 PREFACE As a result of increased facilities within the last quarter of a century for the exploration of formerly inaccessible parts of the country, interest concerning our ancient villages has been largely awakened. Most of these places have some unwritten history and peculiarities worthy of attention, and an extensive literary field is thus open to residents with opportunities for observation and research. Such records have rarely been undertaken in the past, possibly because those capable of doing so have not recognized that what are the trivial features of everyday life in one generation may become exceptional in the next, and later still will have disappeared altogether. Gilbert White, who a hundred and thirty years ago published his _Natural History of Selborne_, was the first, and I suppose the most eminent, historian of any obscure village, and it is surprising, as his book has for so long been regarded as a classic, that so few have attempted a similar record. His great work remains an inspiring ideal which village historians can keep in view, not without some hope of producing a useful description of country life as they have seen it themselves. It is a pleasure to acknowledge with grateful thanks the kind help of friends and correspondents which I have received in writing this book. Mr. Warde Fowler was good enough to look through the chapters while still in manuscript, and I have also received great help from Mr. Herbert A. Evans, who has read through the proofs. The help of others--besides those whose names I give in the text--has been less general and mostly confined to some details in the hi
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