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Index to Illustrations
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NASEBY CHURCH

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The
Warwickshire
Avon

Notes byA. T. Quiller-Couch
Illustrations by
Alfred Parsons

New York
Harper & Brothers
1892

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Copyright, 1891, by Harper & Brothers.

All rights reserved.

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To all the Friends with whom I have spent happy hours on the Avon the drawings in this book are dedicated A.P.
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THE WARWICKSHIRE AVON

OUR journey opens in Northamptonshire, and in that season when the yeargrows ancient,

“Not yet on summer’s death, nor on the birth
Of trembling winter.”

In the stubble the crack! crack! of a stray gun speaks, now and again,of partridge-time. Over the pastures, undulating with ridge and furrow,where the black oxen feed, patches of gloom and gleam are scurrying asthe wind—westerly, with a touch of north—chases the light showersunder a vivid sun. Along the drab road darts a bullfinch, his familyafter him; pauses a moment among the dogrose berries; is off again, andlost in the dazzle ahead.

A high grassy ridge stands up from the plain; and upon it, white andsalient against a dark cloud, t

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