A SUSSEX BROOK. 79' 



A SUSSEX BROOK. 



" Perhaps, at times, in the ray of sunlight' 

 " that comes in at the of/ice -window, he sees 

 64 a vision of green water-meadows, and catches' 

 " the far-off echo of a babbling, stream" 



TTUMBLING and splashing, it turned the 

 mill wheel. This duty performed, it 

 hurried on a tortuous course beneath over- 

 hanging trees and bushes to the road, under 

 which it passed through a culvert piercing the 

 masonry of a small low bridge. On the other 

 side it fell with noisy tumult into a pool, then, 

 rippling over shallows, proceeded on its way 

 between thickly wooded banks to where its> 

 waters blended with a neighbouring stream. 

 It was a very unpretentious brook, narrow, and. 

 without depth; but at this pool the action of 

 its constant fall had worn a deepish hole which 

 extended for some yards. This was, too, the 

 only comparatively open place. Even here,. 



