Garum Firs
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Garum Firs
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Garum Firs,The farm belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Pullet, where Tom and Maggie Tulliver and Lucy Deane visit, and where Maggie pushes Lucy into the pond. "All the farmyard life was wonderful there--bantams, speckled and top-knotted; Friesland hens, with their feathers all turned the wrong way; guinea-fowls that flew and screamed and dropped their pretty-spotted feathers; pouter-pigeons and a tame magpie; nay, a goat, and a wonderful brindled dog, half mastiff, half bull-dog, as large as a lion. Then there were white railings and white gates all about, and glittering weathercocks of various design, and garden-walks paved with pebbles in beautiful patterns —nothing was quite
common at Garum Firs: and Tom thought that the unusual size of the toads there was simply due to the general unusualness which characterized uncle Pullet's possessions as a gentleman farmer. Toads who paid rent were naturally leaner. As for the house, it was not less remarkable: it had a receding centre, and two wings with battlemented turrets, and was covered with glittering white stucco."
common at Garum Firs: and Tom thought that the unusual size of the toads there was simply due to the general unusualness which characterized uncle Pullet's possessions as a gentleman farmer. Toads who paid rent were naturally leaner. As for the house, it was not less remarkable: it had a receding centre, and two wings with battlemented turrets, and was covered with glittering white stucco."
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<em>The Mill on the Floss</em>
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