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abundance. Wild berries of all sorts show in 

 great profusion, making not the least pretty 

 feature of the down country. In that I include 

 with the uplands the spurs and deep shady 

 hollows, the hangers, coppices, and sometimes 

 far-extending woods, the borstals an,d steep, rutty 

 roadways off the crests, and the network of lanes, 

 ancient bridle-roads mostly, which begin on the 

 neutral territory before the hilly part is properly 

 done with and the weald can be said to have 

 fairly established monopoly — the meeting-place 

 of the chalk flowers and such as flourish on the 

 clay. In Goodwood Week the down flowers are 

 almost at their best. 



In the hedges and about the lower growing 

 trees is the English clematis galore, the old man's 

 beard, or traveller's joy, a rather mixed one to me 

 in that it speaks of the year's wane and time's 

 rapid flight. Can you find a more beautiful 

 classic design than the briony, also abundant ? 

 Just here, where chalk and claylands join, the 

 little clear springs come creeping out of the 

 great sponge reservoir and go their way with 

 cool alacrity to be regretfully remembered — the 

 ''coolth" — by the wayfarer who has climbed to 

 the breezy but very sunny hilltops, for the farther 

 he goes, so much the more distance does he 

 probably put between himself and the possi- 

 bilities of a modest quencher till he return to 

 the lower levels. There you are — in West 

 Sussex, at least — within easy reach of any 

 number of pretty hamlets, generally boasting a 

 church a-piece — what a lot of money there must 

 have been about at one time for church-building ! 

 — mostly with a bit of a green, if not enough 

 land of that sort to rise to the dignity of a common ; 



