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attached by chains on either side the wheel to the axletree, so 

 that if the wagon fell back any, it scotched it a good idea for 

 heavy loads in a hilly country. There were six stout cart-horses 

 to draw it, and all in a line, the wheeler being in shafts. The 

 driver said he had a load of eight or ten tons, and drove three 

 miles an hour with it. He paid about sixteen dollars a year 

 taxes for his horses, and two dollars for a very ugly bull-dog, that 

 stood guard over the establishment for more than an hour, while 

 he was refreshing himself in the inn. At length we saw the 

 whole company come out, and the wagon started again, all very 

 jolly ; the currier and another man, with their hands on each 

 other's shoulders, staggered across the street, singing " Oh, Su- 

 sannah ! " At the churchyard gate both fell, rolled over and 

 embraced each other, once or twice tried ineffectually to get up, 

 and then both went to sleep there on the ground. No wonder 

 the sample Welsh girl had a hard look. 



After finishing our- letters to send by the steamer, we visited 

 Wynstay Park. It is much more picturesque than Eaton, the 

 ground being diversified and the trees larger. The Hall, which 

 s a plain building, was undergoing repairs. 



We separated here for a few days, my friends wishing to see 

 more of Welsh scenery, and going to the vale of Llangollen 

 [pronounced Langothlan), while I had a letter I wished to 

 deliver in another direction. 



The park was covered with lines of recently-made under- 

 drains, and I hunted over it in hopes to find men at work, that I 

 might see the manner in which they were constructed. Going 

 to a pretty checkered timber-house to make inquiries, I was so 

 fortunate as to meet the foreman of the draining operations, Mr. 

 Green, an intelligent Warwickshire man, who kindly took me to 

 a field a mile or two distant, where he had thirty men at work. 

 The soil was a gravelly loam, with a little heavier subsoil. The 

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