218 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



CHAPTER XXXm. 



Physical Education A Rustic Village Farm-House Kitchen An Or- 

 chard Stables Leominster A Trout Brook Fruit Culture. 



Monday, June IQth. 



A FTER another breakfast with the Independent minister, (the 

 ** term clergyman is never applied in England except to those 

 of the established church,) he walked with us for six miles out 

 of town upon our road. Three little boys and girls, the youngest 

 six years old, also accompanied us. They were romping and 

 rambling about all the while, and their morning's walk must have 

 been as much as fifteen miles ; but they thought nothing of it, 

 and, when we parted, were apparently as fresh as when they 

 started, and were very loth to return. 



After looking at several objects of interest near the road, we 

 were taken by a narrow, crooked lane to a small hamlet of pic- 

 turesque old cottages, in one of which a farmer lived who was a 

 parisliioner of our guide's. It was a pretty, many-gabled, 

 thatched-roofed timber-house, almost completely covered with 

 vines and creepers. We were sorry to find the farmer not at 

 home; his wife, an elderly, simple-minded dame, received us 

 joyfully, however. In entering the house, as we have noticed 

 to be usual in old buildings, whatever their purpose, we found 



