CHAPTER IV. 
WHERE A NORMAN FELL. 
OM glade and covert we emerge 
upon the high road, which, as- 
cending for a short distance, soon 
inclines to the village of Minstead. 
Thence, by an upland course, we 
make for the Rufus Stone, which 
marks the spot where William the 
Red met his death. Our upland road 
passes for a short distance between 
hedge-banks dividing cultivated meadow and 
cornland from cultivated meadow and corn- 
land. But soon there opens out on the right a 
beautiful piece of forest-land where Oak, Beech, 
and Holly grow together; the long arms of Oak 
strangely contorted, giving to the scene a singular 
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