Sketches of leafy Warwickshire, rural and urban . D. 79 The Cheverel Manor of George Eliot: a Rural Sketch - - - 87 In the Footsteps of Hawthorne : a Rural Sketch 95 At the Sign of the Bull : a Rustic Ramble 103 A Warwickshire Novelist : George Eliot 117 The Warwick Mop: a Hiring Fair Sketch 123 The Dead Churches of Warwick: an Ecclesiastical Sketch - - - - 129 The Old Leamington Steeplechases : a Sporting Sketch - - - - 141 Kenilworth Castle : a Sketch of Noble Ruins 147 Compton-in-the-Hole : a Warwickshire Sleepy Hollow 153 Notes to The Tantivy Trot 159 %\Qt of 3nu0tration6 LiLLiNGTON Oak Tr
Sketches of leafy Warwickshire, rural and urban . D. 79 The Cheverel Manor of George Eliot: a Rural Sketch - - - 87 In the Footsteps of Hawthorne : a Rural Sketch 95 At the Sign of the Bull : a Rustic Ramble 103 A Warwickshire Novelist : George Eliot 117 The Warwick Mop: a Hiring Fair Sketch 123 The Dead Churches of Warwick: an Ecclesiastical Sketch - - - - 129 The Old Leamington Steeplechases : a Sporting Sketch - - - - 141 Kenilworth Castle : a Sketch of Noble Ruins 147 Compton-in-the-Hole : a Warwickshire Sleepy Hollow 153 Notes to The Tantivy Trot 159 %\Qt of 3nu0tration6 LiLLiNGTON Oak Tree : the Centre of England - - . - Frontispiece FACINGPAGE Leamington : Hollv Walk and Avenue - - i6 Guys Cliffe from the River Bank - - - 24 The Tantivy Trot 40 The Old Warwick Prison 56 StRATFORD-ON-AvON : THE MEMORIAL AND ChURCH 64 Arbury Hall, near Nuneaton 88 LiLLiNGTON Church, Leamington loo Warwick Market Place - - - 124 Warwick Castle from the Avon - 136 Kenilworth Castle 148 Compton Wynniates 156 3n a Countx^ t^uxc^^ati: A RURAL 3n a Coimtri^ (Tburcb^ar^: A RURAL SKETCH. /f%NE day I walked about a Warwickshire Gods Acre. Itwas something like the old London burial grounds; some-thing like the one where the poor Jo of Charles Dickensreturned to dust—very full, very cramped, and very man-forgotten, I had almost said God-forgotten ; but that would not be forgets, but God never does. You see this graveyard isold; and graveyards, like human beings, are neglected when theygrow old. Some may think that remark very cruel. It is cruel; but it isthe innate cruelty of man that makes it so. Not a man, not awoman, not a beast, not a bird, not a flower, not a graveyardthat has the misfortune to grow old, but what is in some measureneglected. That is the common lot of everything under the sun ;and a mere graveyard that is only the custodian of a parcel of drybones—dear, beautiful bones some of them were once—cannotbe made an exception to the rule. When I enter
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