... fruits depends mainly on the past season. In Devon they say Plenty of nuts, plenty of pits; Plenty of sloans, plenty of groans Plenty of aggies, plenty of cradles. By pits graves are meant sloans is the West Country vernacular for sloes. Therefore if this ...

... finished up in the autumn with a barn full of mouldy hay, pits full of rotten silage and fields full of lovely looking grass which wasn't any use to anyone. You see the silage business went wrong. I had pits in all the wrong places that got flooded out when ...

... Goliath, held by a tiny stable-lad, was a chestnut gelding, standing something over seventeen hands. He had or neat bow of red ribbon tied on to his tail, which Barny supposed was to indicate that the horse had recently undergone some form of inoculation ...