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present the desecration of the Sabbath (liow the Sabbath was 

 represented, however, must be left to the imagination). Farmer 

 Perrett ploughed his land on the sabbath, the chain of the plough 

 broke, and flying back struck him on the head, and so he died. 

 Adjoining this remarkable record of divine judgment are the 

 remains of the founder's tomb of the decorated period, taken out 

 of the chancel at the restoration of the church and deposited in 

 the churchyard. After this delay, under the guidance of their 

 worthy friend, the route to Uleybury was pointed out. As is 

 usually the case strangers to the locality generally suppose that 

 they know the way better than the natives themselves. In the 

 present instance this was illustrated in a manner, however, by no 

 means unpleasant, for instead of following the dusty road — the 

 longest way round but the shortest in effect — the members struck 

 across the Long Down, leaving Peaked Down on the right. This 

 short cut, which was taken at the advice of one of the members 

 always noted for his short cuts (which ai-e generally found to have 

 their existence in his internal consciousness and by no means to 

 have any objectivity in themselves), opened up a fine view of the 

 country though much shrouded in mist, and revealed the object of 

 the excursion on the top of another hill in the distance, with a 

 valley between. Nothing daunted, with the misleader " well to the 

 fore," a i-apid descent was made, and a guide, with candles, having 

 been procured, a very hot ascent of Uleybury finally conducted 

 the members to the tumulus. Here the more serious work of 

 the day commenced. The large stone which covered and protected 

 the entrance to the chambers having fallen down, considerable diffi- 

 culty was found in gaining admittance at all, as the space at first 

 appeared only sufficiently large for a rabbit run. By dint of wrig- 

 gling in a most undignified manner, four of the thinnest, and of 

 coarse, the most juvenile of the members feet foremost, and in a 

 prone attitude were enabled to penetrate the innermost recesses. 

 Having satisfied themselves of the similarity of this chambered 

 tumulus to the one near Wellow at Stony Littleton, they returned 

 to daylight, when the Rev. Prebendary Scarth read some notes which 

 he had put together on the construction and examination of this 

 barrow, of which the following is the substance : — 



