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Gardeners’ pens 
SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1887. 
MILTON'S COTTAGE IN BUCKS. 
Ac the time of the Plague of London, Milton’s 
friend, Thomas Elwood, the Quaker, secured 
for him a cottage at Chalfont St. Giles, in Buck- 
inghamshire, * a pretty box” as the poet called it, 
where he remained till the danger was past, in 
one of the quietest of villages. An engraving 
of the little cottage accompanied a brief account 
of the circumstances of Milton's removal to this 
humblest and possibly happiest of his several 
March, 1841. door, 
standing in the garden, where Milton, sightless 
as he was, loved to pass the time sitting in the 
sun, à little retired from the — — 
r 
The and for reli 
fluctuate unaccountably, rding T 
cumstances. I have collected chips at Hawarden 
and Cedar cones from the lawn at Hu п, 
famous tour, when he 
sister, which were published not long since. 
These chips and cones are genuine relics whose 
authenticity can be attested, and at some future 
time any person who possesses them will be cer- 
tain to esteem them very highly. But at present 
there are many people who would not admire 
the chips mim while others would detest the 
cones, utations, n the cheese 
which Кечтин ison Bi preserved for 
forty years under a iei case in his hall, take a 
long time to mellow. ve i ~ now ripe, and 
large quantities of chips an wood from 
his cottage at Chalfont St. Giles | are бнт іп 
demand. 
Visitors are not allowed to help themselves, but 
any quantity of mementos can be ordered for 
future delivery, and tons weight are sent annvally 
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