APRIL I7V BROADLAND. 37 



rapid wing dash up and down above the horse-pond, and disappear over the firs 

 that border it, and again as suddenly return. 



We are afloat once again upon the -limpid waters of the Broad. Boxer is 

 munching his well-earned fodder in the reed-thatched stable behind the village 



Fi-om Photo ly] 



A DRAINAGE MILL. 



[Mr. Payne Jennings. 



inn: the knowing old animal enjoys a Broadland visit to the full. Signs of life 

 are showing everywhere around us. Last year's sapless, leaf-denuded reedstems 

 are growing thinner, and the remnants of those broken, and the debris of the 

 sedges and the rushes lie in a confused tangle, more inextricable than if woven 

 among them, upon the surface of the water. Left, unfortunately, to decay and 



