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should most certainly find plenty of them in the early 

 spring. They are very prolific, but they have evi- 

 dently numerous enemies, as we found many frag- 

 ments of cocoons. 



The little nook by the side of the hill is known as 

 the Cherry Gardens and contains the Folkestone 

 Waterworks. A few years ago we should certainly 

 have gone down and obtained some refreshment, for 

 the air on these hills is appetizing, but now the 

 cherries have departed, and the place is " private." 

 Let us follow the path and stroll through the short 

 lane and along the meadows homeward. There is 

 one little object of interest here, if you are anything 

 of an antiquarian, and that is the miraculous stream 

 which flows uphill. In the field next to that 

 through which our path runs, we may find a tiny 

 little aqueduct through which one stream is carried, 

 and under which runs a second. This aqueduct (so 

 says tradition) was built by St. Eanswythe, daughter 

 of King Eadbald (see page 2), to allow of the stream 

 being conducted to her religious house for the supply 

 of the inmates. There was a slight impediment in 

 the way however, namely, that the elevation of the 

 nunnery was greater than that of the source of the 

 spring ; but she who "restored the bliude," and " for- 

 bade certaine ravenous birdes the countrey," "drewe 

 the water over the hills and rockes against Nature," 

 and the enterprise was successful. And even now this 

 same stream supplies a large pond on the Bayle, 

 near which spot the nunnery stood. If you will take 

 your stand anywhere along the course of this stream, 

 and look up it, you may easily fancy the source to be 

 much lower than the spot where you are. Scientific 



