FROM BROCKEN HURST TO LYMINGTON AND BOLDRE. 57 



turn to the left, in a south-westerly direction, 

 walk through the straggling village and then 

 turn, again to the left, into the Lymington road, 

 running southward after crossing the lines of the 

 South-Western Bailway and passing the small 

 post-office. A pretty roadside cottage almost 

 immediately comes into view, low, long, thatched 

 and brick- walled, with four white-framed windows 

 two below and two peeping out from under 

 the lower slope of the roof and walls densely 

 covered with climbing shrubs. From a bordering 

 strip of greensward that forms, so to speak, the 

 roadside e setting ' of this little dwelling, a white- 

 posted iron gate leads through a low, quickset 

 bordering hedge, overspread with an embrowning 

 tinge, into the neat garden, and, through it, to a 

 rustic wooden porch almost hidden by greenery. 



No dwelling-place so well accords with leafy 

 surroundings as one that is itself covered with 

 verdure. Near a wood or forest a cottage, or 

 other dwelling-house, with square, unadorned 

 brick-red walls, tiled-roof, and straight inclosing 

 iron fence, ill agrees with its surroundings, and 

 strikes the eye as being harsh and inconsistent. 



