The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-16

alllsorts Of curious angles. This is the head
Of the village, geographically, in habita-
tiOns and in aristocracy.
Not for its attractiveness, but because 10
seems an outlet to somewhere. you pass into
a little court behind the Black Bull inn. It
is a maze of angles and wynds. Suddenly
another tiny open space confronts you.
Here are an old, oblong, distorted stone
house, with few yards Of grass-plot at its
side; little stone church, attached to
rather than blended with. grim Norman
tower; a graveyard cluttered with crumb-
ling stone; the whole barely covering an
acre of ground. These were Haworth par
sobage, church and churchyard; the earth
ly, and final, home Of the Brontes; and their
living eyes ever rested on Haworth moor
which rises Immediately above the church
yard like wall of rounded stone.
Come to such as these in the summer time
only. The fleecy clouds strsggle over and
between the hills as il shadowy hosts were
marshaling behind the horizon. Here and
there splatches of color lie against old walls
and house fronts. The heather bushes from
the undulaut green Of the moors. And one
can easily imagine bits of Apulian pastoral
scenery here in the shepherds and their
tlocks, like cameo relefs on beds of dazzling
emerald, with perspective of Dillowy hues
and misty clouds.
Over here in NorthamDtorshire, just at
VIC ouSo VI VIC Eht ubu sulLS VI w hI HiCh, 10
ancient. moss-grown Crick, sleeping under
its thatches beside Waiting street, most
famous of Roman roads. There are both
rest and delight 10 old, old CrIck; rest. be-
CAUSE lJ is one Of those English villages
which stands just as iG always stood where
the roar of the workadsy worlds activities
never comes; where the old parish church,
the grave yard, the decayei mauor- houses,
the huge stone dovecotes which house 500
families Of doves, the thached farm la
borers' cottages. the ivies and messy walls,
and the simple village folk, all invite to
quiet and repOse.
Not ten miles away you suddenly come
upon the daIntiest aud most flower span
gled village in England It's tiny collec-
ton Of dependencies upon the manor of
Ashby St. Ledgers; but there can nowhere
else be found such flower uncovered
homes, just at the northern edge of this ,
the whole forming striking background to
the side broidery of one OF the finest wide,
high overarchings Of ancient ash trees
have ever seen, first appears a huge wall,
high, thick, ivy hung and messy. Sur
mounting this is a wonderfully picturesque
old gateh0use with two stories OF chambers
and an attic-the veritable meeting room OF
the conspirators in the noted Guy Fswkes
gunpowder plot of l605-over a capacious
archway, which formed the ancient sole ems
trance 60 the domain. Behind this are other
venerable outbuildings, half a thousand
years old and in perfect maze. To the
right and higher, shows q grim, square
Norman tower and the messy roof OF the
parish church. Behind and above all, are
the many massive gables of this most
splendidly fantastic manor house within the
England midland shires. How glorious an
historic romance could be wrought within
Ashby st. Ledgers' grim and ghostly old
wAllsl
In the western and midland shires Of
England are scores of ancient villages OF
restfulness and beauty. hidden coy from the
glooe-trotters' lorgnettes in the sunny hol-
lows Of the verdaut hills. Old Broadway
Bradweta" 1t once was, from the shep-
herds "cottes on the mounted wolds down
TO the most fruitful wales of Eveshamn-is
lovely type of them all. All its houses
are picturesque. Indeed, here is one Of the
few ancient stone built villages of oldeu
England, left precisely as its makers built
it all the way from 800 to 500 years ago. On
every side are high-pitched, gabled roofs,
with wonderful stone and iron finals, null
lioned windows and bays, loaded easements
containing the original glass, and huge, tall,
stone chimney stacks-Rl weathered to
most beautiful co!ors
Low stone walls in front inclose little old
world gardens with clipped and fancifully
shaped yew trees. Its quaintest Of hostel
ries abound in bits Of detail, old oak doors
and hinges, old glass and easement fasten-
ings and most curious chimney pieces,