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"He had more tow on his distaffe

Than Gerveis knew"

--CHAUCER

The ride to Stone Court, which Fred and Rosah a pretty bit of midland landscape, alerows still allowed to grow in bushy beauty and to

spread out coral fruit for the birds Little details gave each field a

particular physiognomy, dear to the eyes that have looked on them from

childhood: the pool in the corner where the grasses were dank and trees

leaned whisperingly; the great oak shadowing a bare place in

rew; the sudden slope

of the old round for the burdock; the

huddled roofs and ricks of the hoate and fences against the depths of the bordering

wood; and the stray hovel, its old, old thatch full of ht and shadow such as we travel

far to see in later life, and see larger, but not as they toddled a between their father's knees while he drove leisurely

But the road, even the byroad, was excellent; for Lowick, as we have