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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. 



"pOLLOWING Nutting's directions, we had a most delightful 

 -*- walk along the river bank and under some noble trees, then 

 through thick woods and over a bit of low, rushy land, where 

 some Irishmen were opening drains, and out at length into the 

 private park-road a pleasant avenue, which we followed some 

 miles. The park here was well stocked with game; rabbits 

 were constantly leaping out before us, and we frequently started 

 partridges and pheasants from a cover of laurels, holly, and haw- 

 thorn, with which the road was lined. 



We came out at Pulford, when we lunched at the Post Office 

 Inn ; and thence walked by an interesting road, through a village 

 of model cottages not very pretty, over a long hill, from the top 

 of which a grand view back, and by a park that formerly belong- 

 ed to Judge Jeffreys, of infamous memory, to Wrexham. 



Wrexham is a queer, dirty, higgledy-piggeldy kind of town, 

 said to be the largest in Wales (it is about as large as Northamp- 

 ton). It was the latter part of a fair-day, and there had been a 



