. The North Devon coast. d whose arms,revolving in the breeze like windmills, are finishedoff like cricket-bats, have been there just a hundredyears, as you may perhaps see from their are now held together chiefly by dint ofmany successive coats of paint. Beneath, coming up or going down, clatterthe donkeys with their laden crooks—the lastsurvivals of the pack-horse era—for wheels areunknown at Clovelly, and whether it be lug-gage, or coals, or sand, or vegetables to be con-veyed, it is some patient, sure-footed Neddy that does the carrying, on his long-sufferingback. On the way
. The North Devon coast. d whose arms,revolving in the breeze like windmills, are finishedoff like cricket-bats, have been there just a hundredyears, as you may perhaps see from their are now held together chiefly by dint ofmany successive coats of paint. Beneath, coming up or going down, clatterthe donkeys with their laden crooks—the lastsurvivals of the pack-horse era—for wheels areunknown at Clovelly, and whether it be lug-gage, or coals, or sand, or vegetables to be con-veyed, it is some patient, sure-footed Neddy that does the carrying, on his long-sufferingback. On the way they brush past the 28 2l8 THE NORTH DEVON COAST artists, who are generally to be found calmlyseated at their easels in the middle of thethoroughfare ; for artists are privileged personshere, and so plentiful that no one takes theleast notice of them, and no curiosity is evershown as to whether they be painting well or every visitor who is not an artist, has aphotographic camera of sorts ; so that, in one way. A CLOVELLY DONKEY, or another, a good many incorrect representationsof riovelly are taken away in tlie course of theyear. Halfway down to the sea, between this steeplydescending line of white houses—every one ofthem old, except that modern annexe of the NewInn —is tlie sharp turn where a breast-highrough stone wall, connnanding views over tlie sea, THE QUAY POOL 219 is known as the Look Out. Liimediately below,the road runs under one of the old houses, called Temple Bar, and thereafter goes zigzagging down tu Kaay.
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