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which has all the appearance of being a frag- 

 ment of gravestone. 



The dovecote is of stone and oblong, with 

 but a single chamber. The door has been walled 

 up, and entrance is impossible. An ugly gap- 

 ing crack beside it tells of the damage wrought 

 by subsidence, coal-pits being now on every 

 side, andone of the largest coal-washing plants 

 in thekingdom a prominent featureof the fore- 

 ground. 



It is a rather long and uninteresting road 

 which runs east from Tranent, changing from 

 one side to the other of the railway line bylevel 

 crossings, and leading through the village of 

 Longniddry, with its Veterans' dwellings just 

 a shade too studied in their effort to be pictur- 

 esque. At a large homestead half-a-mile beyond 

 Longniddry station we find cottages much 

 pleasanter to look upon than those too often 

 seen on Lothian farms; and a large dovecote 

 occupies a chamber over the main entrance to 

 the yard. 



We are rewarded further when we come to 

 Redhouse, the tall ruin beside the line. The 

 dovecote here is oneof the familar oblong type, 



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