LETTER IV 



Mural Decoration in Old House at Crowmarsh " Ben" Chasing 

 Larks Number of Larks Migration of Larks A Rookery in 

 a Gale Birds as Weather Cocks Weather Changes. 



izth March, 1894. 



DEAR MARCO- Hearing that some rather 

 curious mural decoration had been found in 

 two old cottages which were being repaired and 

 altered at Crowmarsh, I went over there on 

 Wednesday to see them. The building had 

 been originally one house, not by any means 

 large, built in the Tudor period, and probably 

 always used as a farmhouse. Some time ago it 

 had been divided into two cottages and dis- 

 connected altogether from the farm-buildings 

 which belonged to it. 



I made some rough memorandums of parts 



