Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-08-04

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hedge warblers and other tiny birds are in
the matted grasses by the hedgerows and
by the shaded runnels in the bitches.
Everywhere, too, are the irregular
shaped meadows. with their fantastic
hooks and corners, and their sweet rich
heritage, where dairy cows and cattle
Feeding up for the butcher pass their
tranquil lives literally in clover. There is
always sure TO be q pretty pool under the
clump of trees at one corner or shallow
stream ripping gently along at one side,
singing its way to the valleys from the
hills.
Not eight miles away are the spires and
towers of quaint old cathedral city.
This is ancient Worcester, that earned its
title of the faithful city, in the time of
the commonwealth in SO valiantly holding
out against Cromwell for the king. Young
Charles watched the last great battle from
the cathedral tower until the citizens,
vainly beating back the invaders, gave
him time to make his escape. Cromwell
revenged the plucky resistance not so like
a butcher as at Drogheda. but enough to
leave the fair old city almost silent and
deserted for years, while only the fowls of
the air gathered in its roofess and window
less cathedral.
In Worcester the old and the new touch
everywhere, Interesting among that which
is old are two Of the most noteworthy
dral one is that of King John, the earliest
royal ettigy in any of the English churches.
The other is the monument to Bishop
Hough, of Magdalen college celebrity,
whom James II. succeeded in making the
English thoroughly remember.
This mingling of the old and new is
notably characteristic of Worcester. There
are bustlng streets with broad pavemcnts
and busy river wharves. There are noble
| bridges. big warehouses and bigger manu-
| factories with tall chimncys and long
rows Of brick cottages for the workmen,
| which may possess comfort, hut which
have n hideous sameness and drearincss
about them.
| But thore are broad streets, sharply turn
| ing odd corners and losing themselves in
| the qucerest Of lanes running up and
| down the hills. There are weather stained
buildings, sacred and municipal preserved
or restored, or partially rebuilt There is
one venerable fortified gateway, and an
other graceful medieval arch, while there
| are streets and wynds and closes with an
| tiquated names like Forgate and the Fry
ars. 50, to, there are many, many tim.
| bered houses with those fine old open gal
| erics which used 10 look down upon the
coultyards of inns and hostelries- when
wagoners and Cartmen liked to keep an
eye on their goods and guests shouted for
servants instead of ringing Tor them.
| But the quaintest, sweetest place in all
the Cotswold and Malvern hills is ancient
| Broadway. Broadway street is its old and
pleasant name, derived from that great
road or trackway leading from The west
Of England to London and the east coast,
and here anCiently called the "Bradwcia 81
from the shepherds "cotteS on the
| mounted wolds down 10 the most fruitful
vale uf Evesham'
1t is one long, wide. struggling street,
with a large, open, triangular green, at
one end branching into two great roads.
one 10 Cheltenhan and one ia Evesham.
All its houses are picturesque, Indeed
here is one ut the few ancient stone built
villages of olden England, left precisely as
lis makers bulk 1T all the way from 800 tc
500 years ago. and without single mark
Of modern Improvement upon it On
every side are high pitched, gabled roofs
with wonderful stone and iron finals
mullioned windows and bays loaded case
huge tall, stone chimney stacks-al
wealhered to most beautiful cnlors Low
stone walls in front enclose little old worlC
! gardens with clipped and fancifully .shapec
yew trees.
, There are two of the Quairtest inns il
England here. Coaches have run to ant
from them, as now, for hundreds of years
for Broadway is beyond the sound of III,
railway and the rcstful obstetrics abounC
| III Interesting bits OF detail old oak door
and hinges, old glass and easement faStcn
lnss and most curious chimney pieces
! plaster ceilings and pancled rooms. Every
house has Hat headed, mul!uned windows
with massive wood lintcs inside and hug
; baiiAkS OF oak.rOughly squared and moldet
over the ingles and iircplaces Near til,
. village green is the old Grange" Of tn,
! abhatS Of PerShorc in an old house at on
) end of the village colonies of artists. som
from our own country, annually come an,
| live in what they call I'm Paradise AN,
) from the summit of broadway hill no
only can you study scenes blending int
2 ~ English shires, nut hundreds of abbey
( barns and ancient stone farmhouses cal
Z be seen. In every one Of the latter, tradi
ton will tell yo,l, Charles |. or Elizabeth
passed night. How wise of them TO d.
: 50 ii they had the time.
7 enyied them and followed their exam
! pie wherever ] could, and from this mossi
! est Of all west nt England hooks took en-
! trancinS Strolls to DaylesfOrd, wher
+ Warren Hastings was born and where Ii
l died; To little Strengthen, where Samtle
+ Butler, author Of tIudibras,n was born
! to Chipping Lampden site of the ancien
! "Cotswold games Of the time of james
! upon which Jouson, Drayton and othe
poets wrote, aud whose rhymes wer
! published IN a quaint Old volume calle
! "Annalia Dubrensia," III 1856; to Winch
come, asleep by the babbiing osborn
6 stream, Willlts ruin Of a once famous IN
T tered abbey and its sad memories Of til
Z bolsomug pt the queen dOwagcr, CathC
: rine Parri to Cieeve Prior, hung like
7 nest upon the cliffs above the Avon, an
y to ENeShan, queen Of noble Eveshar
( vale, rising from the banks of the Avo
7 and backed by venerable tower, antiuu
{ churches and the ivicd walls of its one
Z furnishing abbey. ono and all, idylli
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