CONTEXTS. 



CHAPTER IX. 



A Railway Ride Second Class Inconvenient Arrangements First Walk in the 

 Country England itself A Rural Landscape Hedges Approach to a Hamlet 

 The Old Ale-House and the Old John Bull A Talk with Country People Notions 

 of America Free Trade The Yew Tree The Old Rural Church and Graveyard 

 A Park Gate A Model Farmer The Old Tillage Inn A Model Kitchen A Model 

 Landlady 68 



CHAPTER X. 



Talk with a Farmer; with a Tender-hearted Wheelwright^-An Amusing Story- 

 Notions of America Supper Speech of the English Pleasant Tones Quaint 

 Expressions The Twenty-ninth of May Zaccheus in the Oak Tree Education- 

 Bedchamber A Nightcap, and a Nightcap 75 



CHAPTER XL 



The Break of Day A Full Heart Familiar Things The Tillage at Sunrise Flowers 

 Birds Dog-Kennels ' ; The Squire " and " The Hall "Rooks Tisit to a Small 

 Farm The Cows The Milking The Dairy-Maids The Stables Manure Bones 

 Pasture White Clover Implements Carts The English Plow and Harrow. . . 82 



CHAPTER XH. 



Breakfast at the Inn A Tale of High Life The Garden of the Inn An Old Farm- 

 HouseTimber Houses Laborers' Cottages Wattles and Noggin Walls A 

 "Fenne Ornee "A Lawn Pasture Copper-leaved Beeches Tame Black Cattle- 

 Approach to Chester 86 



CHAPTER XHI. 

 Chester without A Walk on the Walls Antiquities Striking Contrasts 92 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Chester within Peculiarities of Building The Rows A Sea Captain Romancing 

 An Old Inn Old English Town Houses Timber Houses Claiming an Inherit- 

 anceA Cook Shop One of the Alleys Breaking into the Cathedral Expulsion 

 Tie Curfew 100 



CHAPTER XV. 



Chester Market The Town Common Race-Course The Yeomanry Cavalry, and 

 the Militia of England Public Wash-House 108 



CHAPTER XVL 



Visit to Eaton Hall The Largest Arch in the World The Outer Park Backwoods 

 Farming The Deer Park The Hall The Parterre The Lawn The Fruit Garden 

 Stables .. 112 



