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lovely country lanes or past sleeping ponds of water, up to the 

 purple, fir -topped Fox Hills, or along the Hog's Back on the 

 road to Guildford, past little way-side inns, old vine-covered cot- 

 tages with latticed windows and blooming flower-gardens, quiet 

 country churches in the centre of a little colony of grassy 

 graves, marked with moss - covered stones, green hedges with 

 wide-spreading yew-trees and scarlet-berried holly. On one side 

 stretch fields of golden corn, little villages nestling low down 

 among groups of green trees, or perched high on some hill -top, 

 winding country roads, here and there the white puff of steam 

 from a rapidly speeding train on the railway in the distance, 

 the commanding towers of some gentleman's seat, with the 

 rooks circling round the tops of the oaks in the park ; while, on 



ON THE CANAL. 



