Hardy-on-the-Hill

The big farm was situated on the hill—the dwelling-house, that is, for Hardy''s land stretched up and down and round about almost as far as the eye could see. To say the truth the hill was but a little hill, a scarcely distinguishable mound in the midst of that fertile valley which lay between the downs and the river.The big farmhouse, then, with all its wealth of tile-roofed outhouse and clusteri...