THE BATH ROAD 



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gone, turned into Border poetry by some horsey Scott, 

 so that they should possess some form at least to future 

 generations who may be grappling in the central blue), 







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St. Mary's Butts, Reading. 



" there were eight Mails," he writes, " that passed through 

 Hounslow. The Bristol, Bath, Gloucester, and Stroud 

 took the right hand road from Hounslow ; the Exeter, 



