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Afoot in England

by Hudson William Henry

Law » England

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Guide-books are so many that it seems probable we have more than any other country--possibly more than all the rest of the universe together. Every county has a little library of its own--guides to its towns, churches, abbeys, castles, rivers, mountains; finally, to the county as a whole. They are of all prices and all sizes, from the diminutive paper-covered booklet, worth a penny, to the stout cloth-bound octavo volume which costs eight or ten or twelve shillings, or to the gigantic folio county history, the huge repository from which the guide-book maker gets his materials.
By William Henry Hudson, an English naturalist, and ornithologist and author, his best-known work being Green Mansions (1904), a romance set in a South American jungle.

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...stupendous octopus in red brickwhich threw out red tentacles, miles and miles long in variousdirections--little rows and single and double cottages and villas, allin red, red brick and its weary accompaniment, the everlasting hardslate roof. These square red brick boxes with sloping slate tops arebuilt as close as possible to the public road, so that the passer-bylooking in at the windows may see the whole interior--wall-papers, pictures, furniture, and oftentimes the dull expressionless face of thewoman of the house, staring back at you out of her shallow blue eyes. The weather too was against us; a grey hard sky, like the slate roofs, and a cold strong east wind to make the road dusty all day long. Arrived at Three Mile Cross, it was no surprise to find it no longerrecognizable as the hamlet described in Our Village, but it wassaddening to look at the cottage in which Mary Russell Mitford lived andwas on the whole very happy with her flowers and work for thirty yearsof her life, in...