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and as dusty as of old, stands yet surrounded by 

 woods. There is the road winding between heath 

 and bracken towards the upland moors-, and there, 

 too, is the other road, lined on either side with forest- 

 timber, which leads to a secluded hamlet. The large 

 rush-and-alder-fringed mill-pool is as it was, but the 

 causeway — " cawsey " the rustics call it — with its 

 sloping weir-boards — " splash - boords " — exists no 

 longer. On each side of this stone - covered cart- 

 road, which was protected by posts and rails, the 

 pool extended, and a plank foot - bridge running 

 directly over the sloping splash-boards was used by 

 the customers who came from the hamlet to the mill. 

 As a general rule the water on the causeway was 

 about six inches deep, but sometimes it was more. 

 The miller's horses and cattle were constantly pass- 

 ing to and fro over it during the day. 



On this waterway- in the daytime the small fish 

 delighted to congregate, for food and warmth were 

 there ; but in the gudgeon season these little beauties 

 would come in shoals just at the dusk of the evening 

 from a small stream that ran in near by, and they 

 fed on the stones of the causeway, which had been 

 warmed by the sun. Aquatic insect -life was there 



