6 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXV. 



Morning Walk through a Coal District. Ruabon. An Optimist with a Welsh 

 Wife. Graveyard Notes. A Stage- Wagon. Taxes. Wynstay Park. 

 Thorough Draining A Glimpse of Cottage Life. &quot; Sir Watkins Williams 

 Wyn.&quot; 199 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



Stone Houses. Ivy. Virginia Creeper. A Visit to a Welsh Horse-Fair. En 

 glish Vehicles. Agricultural Notes. Horses. Breeds of Cattle ; Herefords, 

 Welsh, and Smutty Pates. Character of the People. Dress. Powis Park. . 206 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



English Vehicles. A Feudal Castle and Modern Aristocratic Mansion. Aris 

 tocracy in 1850. Primogeniture. Democratic Tendency of Political Senti 

 ments. Disposition towards the United States. Combativeness. Slavery. 212 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



Paintings. Cromwell. Pastoral Ships. Family Portraits and Distant Rela 

 tions. Family Apartments. Personal Cleanliness. The Wrekin 224 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



Visit to a Farm. Farm-House and Farmery. Fatting Cattle. Sheep. Vetches. 

 Stack Yard. Steam Threshing. Turnip Sowing. Excellent Work. 

 Tram Road. Wages 228 



CHAPTER XXX. 

 Visit to two English Common Schools 232 



Appendix A 235 



Appendix B 246 



