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CHAPTER XII.
Cromer-Flint Building-A Wasting Shore-The Poorer Classes
--Along the Norfolk Coast-Old Fishing Villages--A Bygone
Relic-The Gift of Age-A Hilly Road-The Glamour of
the Unknown-Ingworth Church-An Ancient Hour-glass
Holder--An Old Clerk and his Story-Aylsham-An Old
Posting House-Country Shops-Chat with a Farmer-A
Rose Garden in a Churchyard-Lightning Conductors.
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CHAPTER XIII.
A Wooded Country-A Gipsy Encampment-Cawston Church-
A Grand Carved Roof-The 'Plough-light' Gallery-A Fine
Rood Screen-The Saint who cured the Gout-An Interest-
ing Fresco A Curiosity-Sall Church-Hard Times-The
Cottager's Want - Ancient Brasses - Birds in Church-
Reepham-Names not always pronounced as spelt-Two
Churches in one Churchyard—A Quaint Tomb to a Crusader 237
CHAPTER XIV.
Bawdeswell-Deserted Highways-The Country from the Box
Seat A Rebus-A Sudden Storm-East Dereham-Facts
in Paintings-A House of MDII.'--Architectural Scenery—
Cowper's Grave-A Pious Theft-St. Withburga's Well-A
Coloured Windmill-A curious Church Tower-A Ford on
the Way-Watton—The Scene of the Tragedy of the 'Babes
in the Wood'-A Steam Dog-cart-Another Rebus-The
Beauties of Wet Weather
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CHAPTER XV.
Stormy Weather and Stony Roads-Over Croxton Heath-The
Making of a Highwayman-Thetford-An Old-time Hostel-
Ancient Earthworks-On the Wrong Road-The Charms of
the Unknown-A Relic of the Coaching Age-A Gipsies' En-
campment-An extraordinary Photographic Result-Ingham
-Trespassers will be Persecuted'!-The Pleasures of Pho-
tography.
274
Bury St. Edmunds—Mr. Pickwick a Personality—At the Sign of
the Angel-An Old-fashioned Host-English-grown Tobacco
-St. Edmund's Ruined Abbey-Curious Relics---The Monks
of old-For England's Ancient Liberties -An Embalmed
Warrior-The Abbot's Bridge-A Lock of Mary Tudor's
Hair--A Gruesome Volume-A Splendid Norman Tower-
Origin of Gothic Architecture-A Magnificent Church-Flint
Buildings-A Wonderful Roof-A Ghastly Tomb - Old
Brasses and New Ones-A Quaint Epitaph.
290
CHAPTER XVII.
A Pleasant Country-Old Toll-gates-The Homes of the People
-The Modern and the Last Century Traveller — Home
Travel-Ruskin on Railways-A Picturesque Village-An
Old Tudor Mansion-An Ancient Moated Manor House-
The Beauty of Old Buildings—An Ideal Hostelry-The
Coaching Inns of the Past-A Prosperous Farmer-One Re-
sult of Agricultural Depression-A Holiday in a Farmhouse
308
CHAPTER XVIII.
Sudbury-The Head of Archbishop Simon-A Gruesome Sight
-Quaint Tombstones-The Restorer again-An aged Clerk
-Old-fashioned Farming-Spoiling Scenery-Iron Buildings
-Past-time Customs-A Round Church-Halstead-An Old
Warrior's Shield-Names of Places on Maps-A Charming
Village Thatched Cottages-A half-timbered Home . . 327
CHAPTER XIX.
Rural Inns-A Clever Conceit in Words-An Old Water-mill-
A Picture through a Photograph-Braintree-A Homelike
Land The Pleasures of the Road-A Day's Drive across
Country--Great and Little Leigh-A Village Store'-A
Unique Wooden Effigy-An Old Tudor Gateway - Old
Mansions and Modern Farmsteads
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CHAPTER XX.
Scenic Surprises-An Inviting Road-A Ruined Windmill---
Rooks-Little Waltham - Broomfield-An Old Friend - Rain
versus Dust-Writtle-Picturesque Essex--Curious Mist Ef-
fect-Nearly an Accident-Chipping Ongar-An Old Saxon
Wooden Church-A Pleasant Footpath-Names of Places--
An Edifying Conversation -Clerk-hunting
360
CHAPTER XXI.
The Oldest Church in England-Across Country-English
Scenery Through Epping Forest-Drivers Asleep-Ching-
ford-The Royal Forest Hotel-Queen Elizabeth's Hunting
Lodge--Upstairs on Horseback-The Genus Tripper--To-
day and the Long Ago -Home Again-Pleasant Memories
of the Past
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CHAPTER XXII.
On the Road-Hints upon Driving Tours.
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