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A bout Wooler. 



is not much to look at two long rows of building 

 meeting at right angles, and really forming half of a 

 square, with pretty bits of garden seen from some of 

 the windows. Our little cut gives a very fair idea of 

 it ; but the interior is much finer, and is full of character 

 in many respects. 



I found in the list of visitors and in other records in 

 the public rooms much to interest and amuse me, and 



THE COTTAGE HOTEL, WOOLEK. 



retired to rest early, that I might be up in the morning 

 fresh and able to make the most of my time. 



In the morning I strolled round the little town, 

 admiring what nature had done for it, and what uncon- 

 scious art had done also so settling some houses here 

 and there in nooks and corners that no view of Wooler 

 can be got that will give more than a fragment of it. 

 It is hung on the slope of a gentle hill, its main street 

 along a kind of ridge, and the back gardens on the one 



