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merits one in particular, to a daughter of the Egerton 

 family, the Lady Charlotte Lucy Beatrice' Egerton, who 

 died in 1845, at the early age of twenty-one. The 

 graveyard, surrounded by old trees, and looking down 

 upon the water, also contains much that makes us 

 pause little graves as well as large ones. 



" You scarce could think so small a thing 



Could leave a loss so large ; 

 Her little light such shadow fling 



From dawn to sunset's marge ; 

 In other springs our life may be 



In banner'd bloom unfurl'd ; 

 But never, never match our wee 



White rose of all the world." 



From Rostherne we may either return along the lane 

 into the high Chester road, by which vehicles proceed 

 hither ; or go and far better by another lane, to Buck- 

 low-hill, about a mile and a half farther. A capital 

 house of refreshment is to be found there said to be on 

 the site of an hospitium so ancient that Julius Caesar 

 might have supped in it ; and testing it, we make our 

 way back to Bowdon stronger and satisfied. No good 

 work, either of mind or body, is to be accomplished 

 except on a sound physical basis, in the shape of lunch, 

 or dinner, or tea, and in these, our country rambles, 

 though it may not be reiterated, is always to be carried 

 the idea of a snug inn or cottage-parlour, as one of 

 the prime elements in the enjoyment of them. 



Bucklow-hill is the proximate point of departure for 



