206 A Walk from 



CHAPTEE XI. 



THE MILLER OF HOUGHTON 'AN HOUR IN HUNTINGDON OLD HOUSES 



WHITEWASHED TAPESTRY AND WORKS OF ART "THE OLD MERMAID" 



AND "THE GREEN MAN" TALK WITH AGRICULTURAL LABORERS 

 THOUGHTS ON THEIR CONDITION, PROSPECTS, AND POSSIBILITIES. 



AFTEE a little more than a week's visit in St. Ives 

 and neighboring villages, I again resumed my 

 staff and set out in a westerly direction, in order to 

 avoid the flat country which lay immediately north- 

 ward for a hundred miles and more. Followed the 

 north bank of the Ouse to Huntingdon. On the way, 

 I stopped and dined with a gentleman in Houghton 

 whose hospitality and good works are well known to 

 many Americans. The locality mentioned is so identi- 

 fied with his name, that they will understand whom I 

 mean. There was a good and tender-hearted man who 

 lived in our Boston, called Deacon Grant ; and I hope 

 he is living still. He was so kind to everybody in 

 trouble, and everybody in trouble went to him so 

 spontaneously for sympathy and relief, that no one 

 ever thought of him as belonging to a single religious 

 congregation, but regarded him as Deacon of the 

 whole of Boston a kind of universal father, whose 



