The Heron 



CHAPTER XX 



The Lake Village 



From the Abbey to the prehistoric Lake Village is but 

 a step of two miles, and here I spent agreeable hours 

 with Dr. Bullcid, tlie discoverer and excavator of this 

 little centre of British life of the dawn, turning over 

 his finds dug out of the black, peaty soil. Here is an 

 enthusiast if you like — there are some in the south! — 

 a busy doctor who works every day of the year in his 

 practice, excepting when he takes an annual summer 

 holiday of a few weeks and spends every day of it, from 

 morn to de^vy eve, at the excavations, studying every 

 spadeful of earth thrown up by his dozen diggers. My 



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