CONTENTS. 5 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Gamekeeper Game Preserves. Eccleston, a Pretty Village. The School- 

 House. Draining. Children Playing. The River-side Walk. Pleasure 

 Parties. A Contrasting Glimpse of a Sad Heart. Saturday Night. Ballad 

 Singer. Mendicants. Row in the Tap-Room. Woman s Feebleness. 

 Chester Beer, and Beer-Drinking 140 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Character of the Welsh. The Cathedral ; the Clergy, Service, Intoning, the 

 Ludicrous and the Sublime. A Reverie. A Revelation. The Sermon. 

 Communion. Other Churches. Sunday Evening. Character of the 

 Townspeople 150 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Clandestine Architectural Studies. A Visit to the Marquis of Westminster s 

 Stud. Stable Matters 162 



CHAPTER XX. 



The Cheshire Cheese District and English Husbandry upon Heavy Soils. Pas 

 tures. Their Permanence. The Use of Bones as a Manure in Cheshire. A 

 Valuable Remark to Owners of Improved Neat Stock. Breeds of Dairy 

 Stock. Horses 169 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Tillage. Size of Farms. Condition of Labourers. Fences. Hedges. Surface 

 Drainage. Under Drainage. Valuable Implements for Stiff Soils, not used 

 in the United States 177 



CHAPTER XXII. 



The General Condition of Agriculture. Rotation of Crops. Productiveness. 

 Seeding down to Grass. Comparison of English and American Practice. 

 Practical Remarks. Rye-Grass, Clover. Biennial Grasses. Guano. Lime. 

 The Condition of Labourers, Wages, etc. Dairy-Maids. Allowance of 

 Beer 183 



CHAPTER XXIII. 

 Remarks on the Cultivation of Beet and Mangel- Wurzel 191 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



Delightful Walk by the Dee Banks, and through Eaton Park. Wrexham. A 

 Fair. Maids by a Fountain. The Church. Jackdaws. The Tap-Room and 

 Tap-Room Talk. Political Deadness of the Labouring Class. A Methodist 

 Bagman 194 



