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at Hickstcad — the Castle ; at Cuckfield — the King's 

 Head and the Talbot. 



Out of these, two houses are in my opinion specially 

 worthy of mention, namely — the White P^art at God- 

 stone Green, and the Dorset Arms at East Grinstead ; 

 not only because the houses are fine in themselves, but 

 because, thanks no doubt in a great measure to the in- 

 terest taken by their landlords in their past history. 



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The Dorset Arms, East Grinstead. 



something of that rare romance of the roads hangs about 

 them still. Ihe inn at East Grinstead, which is an un- 

 usually fine specimen of its class, used formerly to be 

 called the Cat — but why it was so called it will not be 

 well too particularly to inquire — in fact, as Mr. Silas 

 Wegg would have said, " In Mrs. Boffin's presence, sir, 

 we had better drop it." A token however was struck 

 off to perpetuate this title, which I have been shown 

 through the courtesy of Mr. Trac)', the landlord of the 



