John Yeardley says: The arrangement of the farm-yard, &c., and the cropping of the land are pretty much the same as at Beuggen, near Basle, and what is now practised at Lindfield; and it is just what we want Rawden to beat least what I should like to see it.

I think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which his own finer stratum was laid.

Hence the fields when rapidly exhausted by successive cropping in tobacco were as a rule abandoned to broomsedge and scrub timber while new and still newer grounds were cleared and cropped.

"Coal cropping from the bank!"

His brown, stiff, close-cropped hair needed no cropping at the top, where it thinned away to a shining curve.