xiv CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XLIV. 



Flocks, Dogs, and Shepherds of Salisbury Plain Village Almshouses Ostentation 

 in Alms-giYing A Forced March At Home in Salisbury The Street Brooks The 

 Cathedral Architectural Remarks and Advice Village Churches 305 



CHAPTER XLV. 



Salisbury Plain Strange Desert Character of the Scenery The Agriculture Sain- 

 foin and Lucerne Large Farms Effect on Laborers Paring and Burning When 

 Expedient Expense Sheep-folding Movable Railways and Sheds 312 



CHAPTER XL VI. 



An Arcadian Hamlet Out of the World, but not Beyond the Reach of the Yankee 

 Peddler The Cottages of the Downs Grout and Cobble-stones Character of the 

 Laboring Class of the Downs Want of Curiosity Old Stockbridge, Winchester, 

 William of Wykeham His Legacy to Wayfarers The Cathedral Some Remarks 

 on Architectural Situation Search for Lodgings Motherly Kindness Railroad 

 Mismanagement Waterloo Day at Portsmouth 319 



CHAPTER XLVLL 



The Deceit of Descriptions of Scenery The Soul of a Landscape The Isle of Wight ; 

 its Characteristics Appropriate Domestic Architecture Genial Climate Tropical 

 Verdure The Cliffs of Albion Osborne The Royal Villa Country Life of the 

 Royal Family Agricultural Inclination and Rural Tastes The Royal Tenantry 326 



CHAPTER XLVHL 



The Queen's Yacht Yachts of the R. Y. Club ; their Build and Rig Comparison 

 with American Yachts and Pilot-Boats Seamanship Cut of Sails The Navy- 

 Yard at Portsmouth Gun-Boats Steamers Evening at Portsea Curiosity 

 About Boasting and some English Characteristics Conversation with a Shop- 

 keeper on the "Glory of England" 330 



CHAPTER XLIX. 



Rural Police The "Anchor" Inn The Garden "Old Coaching Times" Heath 

 Land A Dreary Landscape Murder and a Highway Adventure Human Vanity. 336 



CHAPTER L. 

 London Lads Railway Ride Observations in Natural History 340 



CHAPTER LI. 



Rural Laborers near London Our Mother Tongue Cockneys Provincialists On 

 the Naturalization of Foreign Words Authorities Suburban London London 

 The Thames " Saint Paul's from Blackfriar's Bridge" 343 



