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design, and are hung with cheap oleographs and tradesmen's 

 illustrated almanacs. 



This is the modern exchange for the solid furniture of 

 pure material and excellent design, and for the other things of 

 daily use — all the best possible for their varied purposes — that 

 will presently be shown and described. 



It must be understood that these notes and memories make 

 no claim to a thorough or comprehensive description of people 

 or objects ; the most that they can attempt is to give some 

 idea of the general aspects of the older country life and gear, 

 and possibly to convey to the sympathetic reader some] slight 

 impression of their character. They are for the main part 

 the recollections of one individual, refreshed and augmented 

 by recent conversations with a few friends in the immediate 

 neighbourhood. 



Among those who have helped me in this way, 1 should 

 like to make special acknowledgment to Colonel and Mrs. 

 Godwin-Austen of Shalford House ; Miss Ewart of Coney- 

 hurst ; Miss Kiddell, formerly schoolmistress at Bramley ; 

 Mr. James Jackson, engineer and builder, of Bramley ; Mr. 

 George Tickner, carpenter and builder, of Milford ; John 

 Eastwood, Esq., of Enton ; the Rev. Gerald S. Davies, of the 

 Charterhouse ; Mr. Russell G. Davey, of Guildford ; the Rev. 

 W. H. Winn, Rector of Dunsfold, and the Rev. George 

 Chilton. 



Since the desirability of this, however fragmentary, record 

 of the ways and things of the older days occurred to me, I 

 have regretted that I did not think of it thirty years ago. 

 But it is only now, when one becomes aware how little of 

 the old is yet remaining, that the degree of the change is 

 more clearly to be observed. 1 



