4 THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES. 



Beside the kitchen is a large modern room, 

 which was used in Kichard's childhood as a 

 chapel of ease, in which service was read 

 every Sunday for the hamlet of Coate. 



Between the house and the road is a small 

 flower-garden ; at the side of the house is a 

 vegetable-garden, with two or three fruit-trees, 

 and beyond this an orchard. On the other 

 side of the house are the farm buildings. 

 There seems to be little traffic up and down 

 the road, and the hamlet consists of nothing 

 more than half a dozen labourers' cottages. 



"I remember," writes one who knew him 

 in boyhood, " every little detail of the house and 

 grounds, even to the delicious scent of the 

 musk underneath the old bay window " it 

 still springs up afresh every summer between 

 the cobble stones " the ' grind-stone ' apple, 

 the splendid egg-plum which drooped over 

 the roof, the little Siberian crabs, the damsons 

 I could plant each spot with its own par- 

 ticular tree the drooping willow, the swing, 

 the quaint little arbour, the fuchsia-bushes, 

 the hedge walks, the little arched gate leading 

 into the road, the delightful scent under the 



