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against her army, she rode to Eccleshall with 

 horse-shoes reversed. 



From Oakley, the Tern goes past Tunstall 

 Hall, a stone's throw away from which is Shif- 

 ford's Grange, where in the old days great cricket 

 matches took place. Could the old scoring books 

 be unearthed, such family names as Broughton, 

 Twemlow and Warren, would be found in them. 

 Tunstall Pool gives me a memory worth recalling. 

 It was then about 1886 that during an otter 

 hunt Willie Tayleur, eldest son of the squire of 

 Buntingsdale, " tailed " the otter, a feat requiring 

 both pluck and skill. A little lower, and Tern is 

 near Peatswood Hall, where is one of those lovely 

 lakes inseparably associated with the stately homes 

 of England. In skating seasons, the lads and 

 lasses disport themselves on the great sheet of ice 

 at Peatswood, bordered by trees whitened with 

 frost. 



Under outstretched boughs, the little river 

 pursues its course some big trout can be seen 

 here when the Mayfly is on until, passing Tyrley 

 Castle, it flows under the Newport-road bridge. 

 Looking up, you see Market Drayton Parish 

 Church, whose tower was climbed by Robert Clive 

 when a lad. Had he tumbled, the Indian Empire 

 might not have been ours to-day ; at any rate, 

 history would have been different. He was born 

 at Styche Hall (near Market Drayton), a peaceful 

 home, where you can " hear the thrushes singing 

 in the lilacs round the lawn." Shropshire folk 

 look with pride at his statue in King Charles 



