106 Ay AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



Going into an eating-house, the first afternoon we were in 

 Chester, we were shown through three apartments into a kitchen, 

 and from that into a long, narrow, irregularly-shaped room, with 

 one little window high above our heads, and twenty-seven old 

 wood engravings in frames about the walls. When we were 

 re.idy to leave, a back door was opened, and we were told that 

 the first opening to the left would bring us to the street. We 

 found ourselves in one of the narrow covered ways, and instead 

 of turning off to the street as directed, kept on in it, to go where it 

 should happen to lead. Sometimes wide, sometimes narrow, 

 running first, as it appeared, between a man's kitchen and his 

 dining-room; then into a dust-yard; then suddenly narrowed, 

 and turned one side by a stable ; then opening into a yard, across 

 which a woman over a wash-tub was scolding her husband sit- 

 ting with a baby and smoking at a window ; then through a 

 blacksmith's shop into a dark, crooked passage, like the gallery 

 of a mine, at the other end of which we found ourselves on a 

 paved street not far from the cathedral. 



We entered the burying-ground, and seeing that a small door, 

 that is cut in the large door of the cathedral, was ajar, pushed it 

 open and went in. It was dark, silent, and chill. We felt 

 strangely as we groped our way over the unobstructed stone floor, 

 and could make nothing of it until, our eyes becoming adapted to 

 the dimness, we discovered gilded organ-pipes, and were going 

 towards them, when a small door in front of us was opened, and 

 a man came out, saying impatiently, " Who are you ? what do 

 you want ? Take off your hats." 



Our fathers fought for their right in this land against Turk. Frenchman, Spaniard, and 

 Pretender. We have as much pride in Old England, gentlemen, as any of you. We 

 claim the right to make ourselves at home on that ground with you.'' " You are right ; 

 you are welcome. Give us your hand.'- And the whole table rose, shaking our hands 

 with an enthusiasm that only patriotic pride will excuse among Englishmen. 



