A Garden in West Surrey. 



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provide a look-out place over the fields and the distant range of chalk hill to the north ; 

 for the region of the house and garden is so much encompassed by woodland that there 

 is no view to the open country. The little place is most often used when there is 

 thunder about, for watching the progress of the storm, and an incised stone on the 

 garden side bears its name of " Thunder-house." Fig. 54 shows it as seen from the 

 road outside. One of its four openings is blocked by weather-boarding because if 

 left open it would have overlooked a neighbour's house and garden. 



FIG. 54. — THE THUNDER-HOUSE. 



