Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-13
INSIDE THE CASTLE.

INSIDE THE CASTLE.
The castle walls are six feet thick. The
servant, who opens the door for two shil-
Iings. ushers us through a long hall full
of old iron armor into the great hall.
"That," she says, pointing down the
hall. sis the famous mammoth painting Of
Charles l. on horseback, by Yandyke, and
this (picking up a long horn evidently the
tooth of a mammoth is the horn of the ia
nous dun COW, slain by Guy, Earl of War
wick. Here is his punch-boWl, she says.
humping a huge iron kettle. 1t holds 1O2
gallons. l saw it filled and emptied three
times when the present Earl came of age.
Out of the window there you see the river
Avon 80 feet below, and there is the old
mill where they ground wheat TOR the cas-
tie for 400 years. Look out, there, and
don't slip, for the floor is waxed you see."
So on we go, through great rooms filled
with more pictures and buhl furniture.
ssThis." saws the old woman, as we enter
the state bedroom, sis TIE bed which
Queen Anne sleppt0n, and which George
III. gave To Lord Warwick. There's
picture Of Henry VIII. by Vandyke, land
scape by Salvador Rosa, the dead Christ
by Caracci, and"
And so we went on for two hours. The
castle is cold and barDlike. There is no
way Of heating it or lighting it. Kerosene
is unknown in this part Of England,
had to use a tallOw candle in the War
wick Arms Hotel, and to light the castle
it would take a ton of such penny dips.
When / asked the attendant for two can
dies he looked amazed, and said:
1--WE don't give candles, master, with
out chargin hit hon the BILL"
They say an American found piece Of
rag in his soup at the hotel here the other
day, and, holding it up, called the wait
er's attention to it.
S'Wol, wot is it?' asked the waiter.
"a rag, sir-a common rag"
ssVel, YOt if there is! You kant hexpect
velvet in country hotel"
THE OLD MILL ON THE AVON.
From Warwick Castle we went over to
Guys Cliffe, and then down to the old
mill on the Avon, where they have been
grinding wheat and oats for 600 years. /
crawled in under the first story where the
miller was at work filling bags with -four.
''WheTe did this wheat come from - l
asked, taking a handful out of the hopper.
f'Hit his Hamerican wheel, master"
'sWhat do you paw for 1t here, or at the
Warwick Station - l asked.
Il pays fourteen-sixpence for three
bushels, ~ twenty-nineAmerican shillings,
or little less than one dollar and twenty
five cents bushel)
''Do you prefer American wheatH' L
asked.
ssYes, EUR. Hamerican wheat is strong
est. Hour Hinglish wheel -four would
run hall hover the hOyen if we didn't mix
Hamerican with hit.''
tsDo they raise enough English wheat
around here to supply your mill -
ssHo, mol Not 'alf enough. The farms
is all aruning to gross and 'ay n Ow-days,
an 'ay don't pay the farmer. Why FAY
amt worth but three pounds Ell ght ton
seventeen dOllars). They'll all starve at
that.o
The miller told the truth, for four-ffths
of England is in grass and b ay to-day.
The cultivation of crops is being aban-
doned. Grazing seems to be the entire
occupation of the farmer. When / think
that one hundred acres Of ce reals like
corn or wheat will support 600 people,
while one hundred acres deyo ted TO sheep
and cattle will only support fifty people,
we can see where England will come out
if she keeps on as she is going.
ELI PERKINS.