COTTAGES AND FARMS 



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Many of the older cottages have a rough paving of 

 Bargate slabs, or a pitching of the local black iron-stones, from 

 the sate to the cottage door, or of both kinds mixed, with 

 often a few paving-bricks. It not only looks well and is 



Stone-Paved Cottage Entrance 



durable, but as the man comes in from his work he stamps 

 his feet as he passes over the stones, and shakes off most of 

 the loose sandy earth that clings to his boots. 



In this country of light-soiled lands, one does not see the 

 handsome wrought-iron door-scrapers so frequent in the clay 

 of the Weald. 



