160 AUTUMNAL LEAVES. 



leaves are in many places dyed blood red by 

 autumnal colouring. The woods, on either hand, 

 are glorious with Oak and Beech which crowd the 

 uplands of the forest leaving small intervening 

 spaces, here and there, for Holly, Bramble and 

 Bracken until they have reached the hill on the 

 crest of which, on the road we are following, is 

 Stoneycross, 



