Burford was the scene of a good deal of fighting during the Civil Wars.
This Anthony Sedley must have been one of the three hundred and forty Levellers who were imprisoned here in 1649.
Several pages might easily be written in describing the wonderful and grotesque example of alabaster work known as the Tanfield tomb.
It is grandly situated close to the banks of the Windrush, and is more like a cathedral than a village church.
Many other entries of the same nature are to be seen in the parish register.
In this letter prayers are besought for the founder and the Countess Anne his wife, whilst attached to it is a seal with the arms of Neville, Montacute, Despencer, and Beauchamp.
The distance by road from Fairford to the Chedworth woods is about twelve miles; and at any time of the year, but more especially in the spring and autumn, it is a truly delightful pilgrimage.
A fierce struggle took place round the market cross, during which Sir John Byron was wounded in the face with a poleaxe.
And here it is worth our while to consider for a moment how tremendously the abolition of the stage coach has affected places like Fairford, Burford, and other Cotswold towns and villages.
In the parish register is the following entry :-- "1642.
But the night before us is a night of victory: and behold!
At some period, however, vandalism has evidently been rampant.
John Tame, having purchased the manor of Fairford in 1498, immediately set about building the church.
In the event of refusal, they were to be given up to the civil authorities to be burnt.
An old wild duck that left the garden last spring to rear her progeny in a more secluded spot half a mile up stream has returned to us.
Many a heron and wild duck must pass over us unobserved on windy days.
Waiting for wild duck coming into the "spring" on a frosty night is cold work, but very good fun.
They love to prowl around on the chance of a dainty morsel, such as a fat duck or a semi-domestic moorhen.
Now is the time to discover the haunts of wild duck and other shy birds like the teal and the heron.
Time after time we have been startled by a flight of duck rising abruptly from the stream, in places where by day one would never dream of looking for them.
Warren Wilks is a funny duck on the platform, an' he don't let a chance slip to git a joke on Dolly.
I suppose you heard of that silly duckfit of mine?
Why, the same smooth young duck that is taking a nap in his fine private quarters back there now.
I vote we keep the little Lovey Ducktill it's advertised for.
The duck died, but I had to wade for his remains through many yards of frozen mud and dirty water.
This gentleman went duck shooting with Joe, and their adventures were more amusing to the boy than to the amateur sportsman.
This was good advice, for some of the boys would have been glad to duck him in the lake, or to subject him to other indignities, now that they had the power to do so.
The duck was about twenty-five feet from the bank, and as the water was deep and cold and no one with me I concluded not to go in after it.
It was during our stay here that in loading my rifle for a duck the stock broke in two.
But throughout it all the hope of that duck kept us up.
We felt a strong temptation, at one point, to turn into a village inn as we passed and have a cheese and a few loaves between us, but we heroically restrained ourselves: we should enjoy the duck all the better for being famished.
Twur upon Big-duck crick in the Tennessee bottom, the place whur this child chawed his fust hoe-cake.
Indiana could not understand why Hector did not follow the custom of her Indian fathers, and offer the first duck or the best fish to propitiate the Great Spirit.
In an hour's time my poor hands were covered with blood blisters, and my left knee was a lame duck indeed, made so by the slight wrench given it each time I struck in my spade with my left foot; but I made no complaint.
Some ducks when they get big curls on their tails is called drakes and don't have to set or hatch but just loaf and go swimming and eat ev'rything in sight so if I had to be a duck I'd ruther be a drake.
Time and again he had gone out to race when, to use William's own words, it was a blue duck for Bill's chance of keeping afloat; and every time did the gallant race pony pull his owner through.
It's for yourself to decide, but you've only got while a duck wags his tail to decide in.
Here and there the Jacks, in their duck frocks and straws, were paddling about barefooted in the sunshine, giving the last touches to the rails and glass of the skylights.
I saw a wretch trying to do harm, and I fired at him with small duck shot.
Sometimes, if the quantity is very great, a little may be taken, but enough must be left to cover the eggs when the duck leaves her nest for food.
Mr. Frazer found the nest of this Duck in Labrador usually placed upon the out-reaching branches of stunted spruces, which are seldom higher than four feet.
The nest of the Black Duck is placed on the ground, in grass or rushes in the neighborhood of ponds, pools, and streams, in meadows and sometimes in swamps.
An eight ounce, mildew-proofed duck, with a ten or twelve ounce duck fly will give excellent wear.
One boy is the spearman and is armed with a light pole about eight or ten feet long, having a soft pad of rags, or better yet, of water-proof canvasduck to keep it from getting wet and soggy.
Say, it will be fine to have roast duck for dinner to-morrow, eh?
Then the ducktried to fly but a shot from Whopper's firearm laid it low.
But the wounded duck had reached the cover of some bushes and was not hit again.
All this Cuthbert had to witness while still endeavouring to retain the possession of his faculties sufficiently to enable him to duck and back away if somebody suddenly asked him what he thought of the sombre realism of Vladimir Brusiloff.
The bird was, so to say, suspended between them and moved forward by quick strokes of a pair of enormously large webbed feet, precisely as a duck propels itself in water.
Duck River was directly in our rear; I suppose both our flanks rested on it.
There were streets, such as Duck Lane, Gravel Lane, or Cock Lane, in which it was unsafe for any one to venture without an escort of five or six of his fellows.
Jeffrey, who murdered his own child, an infant of six, by hanging him in a cellar in Seven Dials, called for a roast duck directly he entered the condemned cell.
I decidedly prefer the turtle, which are to be had in plenty, all the year round; but the canvas-back duck is certainly well worthy of its reputation.
Old Mother Duck has hatched a brood Of ducklings, small and callow: Their little wings are short, their down Is mottled gray and yellow.
Close by the margin of the brook, The old duck made her nest, Of straw, and leaves, and withered grass, And down from her own breast.
But, though they ran to and fro, the duck always fled past them, and would not let herself be caught.
But before he had time to despair the girl uttered some more magic words, and immediately she herself was changed into a pond, and the Prince into a duck swimming on its surface.
In the meantime, outside the palace walls, the poor White Duck swam up and down the pond; and near it laid three eggs, out of which there came one morning two little fluffy ducklings and a little ugly drake.
THE WHITE DUCK Once upon a time a great and powerful King married a lovely Princess.
The next morning the White Duck wandered round the pond in a distracted manner, looking for her little ones; she called and she searched, but could find no trace of them.
Changed me, from a happy wife, To a duck for all my life.
So the King himself stepped down amongst them, and instantly the duck fluttered down into his hands.
