Excerpt from Strathmore, or Wrought by His Own Hand: A Life Romance Wnr're Lamas meant neither snow-drops, by their pretty old English name, ghosts in white cere-clothes, nor belles in white tarlatan. It was only an old densely-wooded estate down in one of those counties that give Creswick his cool chequered shade and wild forest streams, and lend Birket Foster his shallow sunny brooks and picturesque roadsides; but which, I am told of superior taste, are terribly inslpld and miserably tame, with many other epithets I do not care to repeat, having a lingering weak ness myselr for the old bridle-paths with the houghs meet ing above head, the hawthorn hedges powdered with their snowy blossunl, and the rich meadow lands with their tall grasses, and clever, and cowslips, where cattle stand up to their hooks in fresh wild thyme, and shadows lengthen slowly and lazily through long summer days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.