bs

Heaps of stones placed as memorials or landmarks.

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Reference to a fictitious cockney grocer who loves foxhunting, featured in English novelist R. S. Surtees’s Jorrocks’ Jaunts and Jollities (1838).

bu

Step or set of steps for passing over a fence or wall.

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The Ecclesiastical Commission was established by Parliament in 1836 to propose reforms to the Church of England.

bw

Arbor or trellis for supporting growing plants.

bx

Flowering vine (genus Clematis) of the buttercup family.

by

Northern constellation.

bz

Card game for four players.

ca

Enclosed conveyances, usually for one person, that men carry on their shoulders by means of poles; used especially in eastern Asia.

cb

Himalayan town in northwestern India; a popular summer retreat for the British living in India.

cc

Black and tan toy spaniel; popular English dog.

cd

Farm manager wearing short leggings made of cloth or leather.

ce

Groups of waterways at the bottom of the hill, similar to the canals of Venice.

cf

Or hostler; one who takes care of horses or mules.

cg

Or arbiter; one with the power to resolve a dispute.

ch

Bluish fly that makes a loud, buzzing noise in flight.

ci

Radical periodical established in 1893.

cj

Leaflet intended for wide distribution.

ck

Appurtenances, paraphernalia.

cl

1791 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. tAlexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet; Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), Russian novelist.

cm

County in eastern England.

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Street organ-grinders were traditionally accompanied by monkeys.

co

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born and is buried in this town on the Avon River in central England.

cp

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