AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



at 500 per annum." They showed us also another volume, 

 containing in one hundred and twelve quarto pages, descriptions 

 of the furniture, plate, library, paintings, wines, etc., with many 

 engravings a curious exposure of noble housekeeping to our 

 republican eyes. Seeing that we were interested in the book, 

 the landlady offered it to us ; it was of no use to her, she said, 

 and we were quite welcome to it. It was really of some value, 

 and we offered to pay for it, but she would not sell it. 



Before we left, they showed us through the little garden of the 

 inn ; it was beautifully kept, and every thing growing strongly. 

 Then, after buckling on our knapsacks, and bringing us another 

 mug of home-brewed, our kind entertainers took leave of us with 

 as much good feeling and cordiality as if we were old friends, 

 who had been making them a short visit, following us out into 

 the road, with parting advice about the roads and the inns, and 

 at last a warm shaking of hands. 



The country we walked over for a few miles after leaving the 

 village, was similar to that we saw yesterday fiattish, with long, 

 low undulations the greater part in pasture, and that which was 

 not, less highly cultivated than I had expected to find much land 

 in England, the stock upon it almost altogether cows, and these 

 always looking admirably well ; the fields universally divided by 

 hedges, which, though they add much to the beauty of the land- 

 scape, when you are in a position to look over it, greatly interrupt 

 the view, and always are ill-trimmed, irregular, and apparently 

 insecure. We met no one on the road, saw very few habitations, 

 and only two men at work, plowing, for several miles ; then a 

 cluster of cottages, an inn, and a large old timber-house. As I 

 had been informed (very wrongly) that these were getting rare 

 in England, and it was very peculiar and striking, I stopped to 

 sketch it. 



Imagine a very large, old-fashioned New England farm-house, 



