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and raven locks solicits you to purchase a photograph of the monu- 
ment, a male member of the family invites your attention to an 
al fresco skittle alley, where for a penny a shot you may try your 
skill at knocking down cocoa-nuts. So the ancient and the modern 
mingle. Another gipsy man, dressed in a “horsey ” style, directs: 
attention to an arboreal freak—which is not uncommon in the 
Forest—of a beech and an oak apparently growing from the same 
root, and, not knowing his audience, gravely explains, to their 
scarcely suppressed amusement, which is the beech and which is the 
oak! We had heard much of the Gipsies of the New Forest, but 
this, the only remnant of the race we met with, did not favour- 
ably impress us, although the members of the family were all very 
civil-spoken people: but perhaps something more picturesque and 
Bohemian-like was anticipated. 
CANTERTON VALLEY. 
From this famed classic spot we walked along Canterton 
Valley, which opens up pleasantly to the west, through many 
green glades and shady nooks embosomed in the woodland. We 
visited in succession a number of picturesque beech woods, and 
well-grown oak, and thriving Scots fir plantations of various ages. 
In nearly all of them there is an abundant undergrowth of fresh 
glistening-leaved holly, which, it seems, has grown up in an extra- 
ordinary way all over the Forest since the deer were removed in 
1851. Previous to that time the Forest retained its ancient character 
of a chase, and from five to seven thousand deer were maintained 
in it at the national expense. These animals kept down the holly, 
but since the bulk of the deer were sold off the holly has got the 
upper hand. There are still, however, it may be said, enough of fallow 
and red deer in the Forest roaming about in a wild state to furnish 
some exciting stag hunts, which are followed with great zest by 
the residents in the Forest. Towards the upper end of the valley, 
one of the youngest plantations of the Scots fir was entered and 
examined with much interest, and it was considered an excellent 
example of a thrifty and well-managed fir wood. 
FRITHAM. 
Leaving the valley, we emerge upon Fritham Plain, and strike 
across it in a north-westerly direction to Bentley Woods. The 
Forest village of Fritham lies on our right, a very ancient and 
