CONTENTS. xi 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Gamekeeper Game Preserves Eccleston, a Pretty Village The School-House 

 Draining Children Playing The River-side Walk Pleasure Parties A Contrast- 

 ing Glimpse of a Sad Heart Saturday Night Ballad Singer Mendicants Row in 

 the Tap-Room Woman's Feebleness Chester Beer, and Beer-Drinking 119 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Character of the Welsh The Cathedral ; the Clergy, Service, Intoning, the Ludic- 

 rous and the Sublime A Reverie A Revelation The Sermon Communions 

 Other Churches Sunday Evening Character of the Townspeople 128 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Clandestine Architectural Studies A Visit to the Marquis of Westminster's Stud- 

 Stable Matters 139 



CHAPTER XX. 



The Cheshire Cheese District and English Husbandry upon Heavy Soils Pastures ; 

 their Permanence The Use of Bones as a Manure in Cheshire A Valuable Re- 

 mark to Owners of Improved Neat Stock Breeds of Dairy Stock Horses 145 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Tillage Size of Farms Condition of Laborers Fences Hedges Surface Drainage 

 Under Drainage Valuable Implements for Stiff Soils, not used in the United 

 States 162 



CHAPTER XXII. 



The General Condition of Agriculture Rotation of Crops Productiveness Seeding 

 down to Grass Comparison of English and American Practice Practical Remarks 

 Rye-Grass, Clover Biennial Grasses Guano Lime The Condition of Laborers, 



s, etc. Dairy -Maids Allowance of Beer 158 



CHAPTER XXIII. 

 Remarks on the Cultivation of Beet and Mangel- Wurzel 166 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



Delightful Walk by the Dee Banks, and through Eaton Park Wrexham A Fair 

 Maids by a Fountain The Church Jackdaws The Tap-Room and Tap-Room 

 Talk Political Deadness of the Laboring Class A Methodist Bagman 169 



CHAPTER XXV. 



Morning Walk through a Coal District Ruabon An Optimist with a Welsh Wife- 

 Graveyard Notes A Stage- Wagon Taxes Wynstay Park Thorough Draining 

 A Glimpse of Cottage Life" Sir Watkins Williams Wyn " 174 



