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and " the branches of a vine " still trail above the 

 parlour window. The interior of the cottage remains 

 in almost the same condition as when the " good 

 dairyman " lived there. The two corner cupboards 

 occupy their old position in the parlour, and the door 

 of the dairy with the original open lattice-work still 

 swings on its ancient hinges. Upstairs, the room in 

 which the daughter died, with the great brick chimney- 

 stack standing out against the wall, is but slightly 

 altered since the early summer of 1801. The present 

 occupier of the cottage shows with pride a length of 

 iron chain which formerly belonged to old Wallbridge, 

 and the original chimney-rack from which his bacon 

 was suspended. Hard by the cottage a Wesleyan 

 Methodist church, known as "The Dairyman's 

 Daughter's Memorial Chapel," now stands, built in 

 part, at least with the offerings of strangers, whose 

 interest in Legh Richmond's story had led them to 

 make a pilgrimage to the cottage. Numbers of 

 persons still continue to visit the grave of the dairy- 

 man's daughter in Arreton churchyard, marked by a 

 headstone bearing an epitaph of much simple beauty 

 from the pen of her pious biographer. Legh Rich- 

 mond himself officiated at her funeral, and as the 

 procession filed into the church, he mentions that, 

 looking upwards, he observed a dial one of the few 

 ancient sundials now remaining in the Isle of Wight 

 on the church wall, which brought to his mind the 

 Psalmist's words, " Our days on the earth are as a 

 shadow, and there is none abiding." 



Some two miles from the cottage there stood in 

 Legh Richmond's time "a large and venerable 

 mansion, situated in a beautiful valley at the foot 

 of a high hill." This was Knighton, the house where 



