172 REMINISCENCES OF OLD ALLESTREE, 
stampede ; but now the old place and its ghost are gone, and only 
the old yew tree remains—a solitary evidence of what has been— 
standing in a field about a hundred yards north of the church. 
Some old whale’s bones, forming an arch, still remain in the 
blacksmith’s garden, by the turnpike road side, not far from the 
New Inn; but an old pair of stocks, that stood under the church- 
yard fence, have long since been removed ; they were near the 
Red Cow, and not without reason, for its uproarious visitors found 
in them a quiet, but not desired, haven, when too much disturbed 
in their understandings to navigate themselves home, so the 
beadle found a rest for them there until they could. 
The Manor House has entirely disappeared; we can find no 
remains of it incorporated in the very commonplace farmhouse that 
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