Highways and byways in Surrey . dited over fivehundred books—Samuel Carter Hall and his wife Anna MariaFielding. Both are buried at Addlestone; so is FannyKembles mother, Mrs. Charles Kemble, who as MademoiselleDecamp had delighted French theatres. But Addlestonesgreat possession is still living, the huge Crouch Oak whichspreads vast branches over ground where Wycliff is said tohave preached, and Queen Elizabeth to have dined. Oncethe Crouch Oak stood to mark the bounds of Windsor Forest;and up to years not long gone by love-lorn young womengathered its bark to boil down into philtres to ensna
Highways and byways in Surrey . dited over fivehundred books—Samuel Carter Hall and his wife Anna MariaFielding. Both are buried at Addlestone; so is FannyKembles mother, Mrs. Charles Kemble, who as MademoiselleDecamp had delighted French theatres. But Addlestonesgreat possession is still living, the huge Crouch Oak whichspreads vast branches over ground where Wycliff is said tohave preached, and Queen Elizabeth to have dined. Oncethe Crouch Oak stood to mark the bounds of Windsor Forest;and up to years not long gone by love-lorn young womengathered its bark to boil down into philtres to ensnare thehearts of unwilling swains. At Anningsley Park, two miles away, lived Thomas Day,author of Sandford and Merton ; Thomas Day, who took afoundling child of thirteen and named her Sabrina, andeducated her to be his wife—a position which she, at an age tomarry, refused. His fate was perverse to the end. He taughthimself to dance, wooing another lady who spurned him ; and,teaching himself to ride, he was thrown and The Crouch Oak, AddUstonc. CHAPTER XIX CHOBHAM AND BISLEY Euclid in Surrey. — Chohiiam.—Bagshot Rhododendrons.—Vultures of theRoad.—The Golden Fanner. — Catching the Sniall-pox.—A contentedFamily.—The Queens Bon-graces.—A Gentle Hermit.—Prize fights.—Bisley. — Donkeytown.—A wilful brook. Half of north-west Surrey belongs to the soldiers. ChobhamCommon, Bagshot Heath, Chobham Ridges, Bisley, Pirbright,York Town, and Camberley contain among them pretty nearlyall the camps, colleges, training grounds, and rifle-ranges thatdo not belong to Aldershot over the Hampshire border. Thewhole aspect of the country is military ; rural outlandishnesshas been drilled into rigidity and pattern. The roads run asstraight as if the Romans had driven them—and, indeed, someof them in the neighbourhood are Roman roads; the face ofthe hills and heather commons is scored with roads like figuresof Euclid, triangles, oblongs, radii, rhomboids, every kin
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