This feature indicates the modern improvements in English farming more prominently to the cursory observer than any other that attracts his eye.

It is a rigidly utilitarian innovation on the old system, that does not at all promise to improve the picturesque aspect of the country.

To "reconstruct the map" of a county, by wire-fencing it into squares of 100 acres each, after grubbing up all the hedges and hedge-trees, would doubtless add seven and a quarter per cent.

to the agricultural production of the shire, and gratify many a Gradgrind of materialistic economy; but who would know England after such a transformation?
One would be prone to reiterate Patrick's exclamation of surprise, when he first shouldered a gun and tested the freedom of the forest in America.
Seeing a small bird in the top of a tree, he pointed the fowling- piece in that direction, turned away his face, and fired.

A tree- toad fell to the ground from an agitated branch.