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words of an old English dialogue of the beginning of the eleventh 
century may be applied almost without alteration :— 
- The ploughman says: “I work hard; I go out at day-break, driving the 
oxen to the field, and I yoke them to the plough. Be it never so stark a 
winter, I dare not linger at home for awe of my lord. Every day I must 
plough a full acre or more . . . I have a boy driving the oxen with a 
goad-iron, who is hoarse with cold and shouting . . . Mighty hard work 
a. os igs 
Such are some of the changes through which this district passed, 
and which have left their traces up to the present day. They 
eflect, not the overshadowing predominance of some great house, 
with its rise and fall, and with an importance often exaggerated by 
the novelist, and sometimes by the historian; but the progress of a 
ee Wills, 
4 By Wm. Cunnineton, F.G.S., and Wm. A. Cunnineton, Pu.D. 
(/§ COLLECTION of implements, together with a series of 
glaciated and of naturally polished flints from this 
ing been found there within the past two years. The discovery 
th is interesting deposit in May, 1901, is due to 8. B. Dixon, Esq., 
Pewsey. Although the implements have already been described 
various authors, there are certain problems connected with 
