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Download or read book Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer A Record of the Last Years of Frederick Bettesworth written by George Sturt and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer: A Record of the Last Years of Frederick Bettesworth" by George Sturt is a biography. Bettesworth, the old laboring man, who in the decline of his strength found employment in the author's garden and entertained him with his talk, never knew that he had been made the subject of a book. To know it would have pleased him vastly, and there is something tragical in the reflection that he had to wear through his last weary months without the consolation of the little fame he had justly earned; and yet it would have been a mistake to tell him of it. His upbringing had not fitted him for publicity. Excerpt: "December 7, 1892.—The ground in the upper part of the garden being too hard frozen for Bettesworth to continue this morning the work he was doing there yesterday, I found him some digging to do in a more sheltered corner, where the fork would enter the soil. With snow threatening to come and stop all outdoor work, it was not well that he should stand idle too soon."
Download or read book Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer written by George Bourne and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving account of a Surrey Labourer at the end of the nineteenth century, related by a master narrator.
Download or read book A Memoir of a Surrey Labourer written by George Sturt and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Frederick Grover covers the period from 1896 to his death in 1905. Not only an account of Grover's life as it came to an end, but also a source of information on the economic and social life of an agricultural labourer at the end of the nineteenth century.
Download or read book Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer written by George Bourne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer: A Record of the Last Years of Frederick At the same time, it must be allowed that his own evidence was not quite to be trusted. A man in his position, with the workhouse waiting for him, will not make the most of his years to an employer, and I sometimes fancied that Bettesworth wished me to think him younger than he was. But it is quite possible that he was not himself certain of his own age. I have it from his sister-in-law that both his parents died while he was still a child, and that he, with his brothers and sisters, was taken, destitute, to the workhouse. Thence, I suppose, he was rescued by that uncle, who kept a travelling van and the man who carried the boy to fairs and racecourses, and thrashed him so savagely that at last he ran away to become Farmer Barnes's plough-boy, was not a person likely to instruct him very carefully about his age. 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.
Download or read book Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer written by George Sturt and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its humble premise and subject, George Sturt's Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer offers profound insight into a bygone time through the fascinating character of Frederick Bettesworth, a groundskeeper who despite harsh circumstances and little means was afforded a place of respect in his village. The book brings together a series of vignettes about Bettesworth that gradually reveal his unique outlook and attitude. It's a gratifying read for those who believe that true wisdom can flow from the unlikeliest of sources.
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Download or read book Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer A Record of the Last Years of Frederick Bettesworth The Original Classic Edition written by George Sturt (AKA George Bourne), and published by Emereo Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer A Record of the Last Years of Frederick Bettesworth. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by George Sturt (AKA George Bourne) George Sturt (AKA George Bourne), which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer A Record of the Last Years of Frederick Bettesworth in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer A Record of the Last Years of Frederick Bettesworth: Look inside the book: A labourer who has at least the look of being old: thin, grey-eyed, quiet, with bent shoulders and patient though determined expression of face—such is the Bettesworth whose last years are recorded in these chapters; and it does not much matter that we should know exactly how many years it took to reduce him to this state. ...From that, working all the while, Bettesworth would wander off to the drought, and I would hear how long this or that neighbour had been without water; how a third (whose new horse, by the way, 'was turnin' out well—but there, so do all they that comes from' a certain source, where, however, 'they works 'em too hard')—how a third neighbour was obliged to keep his old horse almost constantly at work fetching water, since he had twenty-two little pigs, besides 18 other live animals whose numbers goodness knows, and so did Bettesworth.
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Download or read book Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer written by George Bourne and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bettesworth, the old labouring man, who in the decline of his strengthfound employment in my garden and entertained me with his talk, neverknew that he had been made the subject of a book. To know it wouldhave pleased him vastly, and there is something tragical in thereflection that he had to wear through his last weary months withoutthe consolation of the little fame he had justly earned; and yet itwould have been a mistake to tell him of it. His up-bringing had notfitted him for publicity. On the contrary, there was so much dangerthat self-consciousness would send him boastfully drinking about theparish, and make him intolerable to his familiars and useless to anyemployer, that, instead of confessing to him what I had done, I tookevery precaution to keep him in ignorance of it, and sought by leavinghim in obscurity to preserve him from ruin.Obscure and unsuspicious he continued his work, and his pleasantgarrulity went on in its accustomed way. Queer anecdotes came from himas plentifully as ever, and shrewd observations. Now it would be ofhis harvesting in Sussex that he told; now, of an adventure with atroublesome horse, or an experience on the scaffolding of a building;and again he would gossip of his garden, or of his neighbours, or ofthe old village life, or would discuss some scrap of news picked up atthe public-house. And as this went on month after month, although Ihad no intention of adding to the first book or writing a second onthe same lines, still it happened frequently that some fragment orother of Bettesworth's conversation took my fancy and was jotted downin my note-book. But almost until the end no definite purpose informedme what to preserve and what to leave. The notes were made, for themost part, under the influence of whim only.Towards the end, however, a sort of progression seemed to revealitself in these haphazard jottings. His age was telling heavily uponBettesworth, and symptoms of the inevitable change appeared to havebeen creeping unawares into my careless memoranda of his talk. I donot know when I first noticed this: it probably dawned upon me veryslowly; but that it did dawn is certain, and in that perception I hadthe first crude vision of the present volume. I might not aim to makeanother book after the pattern of the first, grouping the materials asit pleased me for an artistic end; but by reproducing the notes intheir proper order, and leaving them to tell their own tale, it shouldbe possible to engage as it were the co-operation of Nature herself,my own part being merely that of a scribe, recording at the dictationof events the process of Bettesworth's decay.To this idea, formed a year or so before Bettesworth's death, I havenow tried to give shape. Unfortunately, the scribe's work was not welldone. Things that should have been written down prove to have beenoverlooked; and although in the first few chapters I have gone back toa much earlier period than was originally intended, and have preservedthe chronological order all through, the hoped-for sense ofprogression is too often wanting. It existed in my mind, in thememories which the notes called up for me, rather than inBettesworth's recorded conversations. Much explanatory comment,therefore, which I should have preferred to omit, has been introducedin order to give continuity to the narrative.
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