The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-31

roads and barrows and cromlochs, and
above all give him time for folklore tales
and bugaboos and whispered mysteries OF
the lordy halls nigh up among the parks
and demesnes.
Never care for the passing hours The
thetches of cottages lean everywhere along
the Avon-almost ts its brink. You have
no need for an inn. With your peasant
companion you will be welcome every
where at night emong the peasantry. By
and by you will come to the valves among
the C0tsw Odds. Then will you see hamlets
and villages dotting the valleys inbedded
II orchards, clustering on the hillsidss,
bercheA upon the nights, and all IN a
setting of lush orchards, waving fields
within checkered line of hawthorn hedges
or denser rows of lines, and these
In turn backed by banks Of forest primeval;
all In such dropping quiet, ample content
and smiling opulence that, full OF the whey
exultaton OF it all, you again and again
irresistlbly exclain, Here is Already at
lastn'
By and by your boat comes under the
shadows of gray old abbey town. Near
it is Deerhurst, where kings older than
Alfred worshlped. The Avon has sung it
self asleep in the bosom of the silver Severn,
and there, by Olney, Cnut, and Edmund
Ironside met and divided England between
Dane and Sa2on. Ne ,rer still to the gray
old abbey town is tue Bloody Meadow"
where the War of the Roses was decided.
Back past this now peaceful scene, past
old thatched cottages, bright gardens and
green fields, there rises upon the strangers
sight mighty silve gray old abbey. Ii Is
the abbey OF Tewkesbury. 1t Is more than
800 wears old, and the Norman pillars of It's
dim old nave are the largest and highest IN
England. Few Of the English abbeys, or,
indeed of the great English cathedrais,
h. nf hiGtnrU story
which Tewkesbury possesses.
Then what wonderful charms there is in
the old half-.imbersd houses OF Tewkes-
bury. They lean OF the shadowy streets as
though they had come back from misty
past to crane their necks and heads into the
affairs Of this bright and modern time.
Here you have Chester, Bristol, Exeter and
Coventry almosG iii one in the wealth OF
specimens OF the old Tudor style. In the
gables with their GROWING pinnacles, in the
porches, doors. mullolGeu WIN
dows and huge chimneys, IN
the over hanging of stories and
projection of windows. they are no more
quaint and curious than their interiors,
with their spacious, low-ceilinged rooms.
paneled with oak OF ebon blackness, elab-
orately carved and orpamented, and with
passages, hooks, inches, small rooms. cup
boards and presses bewildering in number.
An OF those who have read John Hal
ifaxn will find in Tewkesbury @ closer
charm than IN abbey aud ancient houses
| Tewkeshury green was Abel Fletchers'
lawn. The clematis arbor, the yew hedge
and many delights so pleasantly pictured
! In "John Halifax" are still carefully pre-
, served. Dinah Mulock Craik loved old
| Tewkesbury passionately. She summered
| at Malvern, but this mellow, restful place
was her afPectionate haunt. Over IN the
| huge abbey. among some OF the rlchest ana
| erandest ecclesiastic monuments OF Eng"
| land, there has lately been placed a neung
| tablet to the memory Of this good and
talented woman.
| A two hours walk will bring you to
bright and glow Malvern, set high up
against the glorious Malvern bills. 1t Is the
| ouietest, haudsomest, sunniest, snadiesV'
LATEST island resort in all England. Ihou-
sands are here, but there IS no eloo wang, no
| iostling, no hurrying. livery body saunters'
| dnaes dreams. A senzes of .azy. uncon-
strained enjoyment broods over the entire
place and region. The waters ana t ne
| mountain air bring all the people mere; out
| these are not u 1.-THE of tne attractlons.
| A ten minutes walk upon thehiils ana you
| are in rural England as the poets sing OF IT,
Fruit trees shake their blossoms or their
| fruit In showers upon the grass In odd
hooks and corners OF struggling hamlets.
| Each farm house and cotters cottage stands
! in its own orchard, brilliant with the spray
| of pink and white, or with balls OF Tusset
! and gold, according TO the season. Cnat-