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twisting the hemp under the elms of the lane, after- 
wards, doubtless, to take the manufactured article 
himself to market and offer his wares for sale from a 
stand in the street. 
The millwright used to be a busy man here and 
there in the villages, but the railways take the wheat 
to the steam mills of cities, and where the water-mills 
yet run, ironwork has supplanted wood. In some few 
places still the women and girls are employed making 
gloves of a coarse kind, doing the work at home in 
their cottages; but the occupation is now ‘chiefly 
carried on nearer to the great business centres than 
this. Another extinct trade is that of the bell 
foundry. One village situate in the hills hard by was 
formerly celebrated for the church bells cast there, 
many of which may be found in far distant towers 
ringing to this day. 
Near the edge of the hill, just above the washpool, 
stands the village church. Old and grey as it is, yet 
the usage of the pool by the shepherds dates from still 
earlier days. Like some of the farmhouses further 
up among the hills, the tower is built of flints set in 
cement, which in the passage of time has become 
almost as hard as the flint itself. The art of chipping 
flint to a face for the purpose of making lines or 
patterns in walls used to be carried to great per- 
fection, and even old garden walls may be seen so 
ornamented. 
The tower is large and tall, and the church a great 
