THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Here is a field of oats ready for the reaper’s sickle; over the opposite hedgerow is a clover field knee deep with grass and well besprinkled with clover, touched here and there to relieve the eye with deep orange vermilion poppies; next is a large meadow with pleasant nooks and hidden vales through which filters a small rill, a wheat field adjoins, where the large ears of corn bend into a succession of ridges before the breeze like wavelets; in hedgerows we hear the call of the linnet and the song of the goldfinch, and from the turnip field comes the startled burring sound caused by the burrying flight of a covey of partridges; a few days more and death and destruction will be meted out to these harmless birds.

Bogg/Edenvale, 1894