320 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



no public conveyance, not even a carrier's cart by which we 

 might send on our packs, runs through or from the hamlet. Yet 

 this is a good inn, clean, and well provided ; we have a large 

 room, comfortably furnished ; the landlord seems to understand 

 what a tired traveler wants ; and down stairs, in the parlor, there 

 is what do you think? 



"IMPROVED BRASS CLOCK, 



MANUFACTURED BY 



:. WELTOX, TERRYVILLE, CONNECTICUT, 

 ( Warranted, if well used.") 



It cost twelve shillings, and was a capital time-piece, only lately 

 it had got a-going too fast, and the landlord wished Mr. Welton 

 would send his man and have it fixed according to contract. It 

 marked the hour rather behind our watches, but as it was the 

 liveliest thing in the village, we have set it back to the landlord's 

 notion, lengthened the pendulum, and oiled the " pallet," all to 

 save the reputation of Mr. Welton and the universal Yankee 

 nation. 



The cottages here are generally built of a chalk grout, some- 

 times with lines of flint stones for ornament. In others, flint 

 pebbles are laid regularly in courses set in grout, like the " cob- 

 ble-stone houses" in western New York; in others, grout, and 

 stones set in grout, alternately ; or brick and stone in grout, in 

 alternate tiers a foot thick. The village fences and the stock- 

 yard walls about here are also made of white grout, very thick, 

 and with a coping of thatch. The thatch on the cottages is very 

 heavy, sometimes two feet deep. 



