Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-06-12

/ BauQle ana strange TO MS naluS uHleSS
the creature was extraordinarily docile.
This question, however, is immateriaL
| Suffice it TO say that at dawn the fol
lowing morning Roger behold his sis
| ter's lover or husband entering the
! gates of large and we'll timbered park
on the southwestern verge of the White
| Hart Forest Gas it was then called),
now known to everybody as the Vale OF
Blackmoor. Thereupon the sailor dis
carded his steed, and finding for him
self an obscurer entrance to the same
| park little farther on he crossed the
grass to reconnoiter.
He presently perceived amid the trees
before him a mansion which, new to
himself was one of the best known in
the country at that time OF this fine
immortal residence hardly trace now
remains, but a manuscript dated some
years later than the events we are re-
garding, describes it in terms from
which the imagination may construct n
singularly clear and vivid picture. This
record presents it as consisting of "a
faire yellow freestone building, partly
two and partly three storeys faire
halle and parlour, both waynscotted; a
faire dyninge roome, and withdrawing
roome, and many good lodgings;
kitchen adjoyning backwarde to one
end of the dwelling house, with faire
passage from it into the halle, parlour
and dyninge roome, and sellars adjoyn
inge.
I'm the front of the house a square
greene court, and u curious gatehouse
with lodgings in it, standing with the
front of the house to the south In
large outer court three stables, coach
house, large barne and a stable for
oxen and kyne, and all houses necessary.
Without the gatehouse, paled in,
large square greene, i'll which standeth
faire chappell; of the southeast side
Of the greene court, towards the river,
a large garden.
"Of the southwest side of the greene
court is a large bowling greene, with
Tower mounted walks about it, all
walled about with a battled wall, and
sett with all sorts of fruit, and out of
it into the feildes there are large walks
under many tall elmes orderly plant
ed.
Then follows a description of the
orchards and gardens; the servants Of
fees, brewhouse, bakehouse, dairy, pi-
geon houses and cornmill; the river
and its abundance of fish; the warren,
the coppices, the walks Ending thus:
And all the country north of the
house, open CHAMPAIGN, sandy feildes,
very dry and pleasant for all kindes Of
recreation, huntinge and hawkinge, and
profitable for tillage. The house
hath large prospect east, south and
west, over very large and pleasant
vale, is seated from the good
market towns of Sherton Abbas three
miles and Ivel mile, that plentifully
yield all manner of provision, and with
in IL miles of the south sea- -
1t was on the grass before this seduc-
tive and picturesque structure that the
sailor stood at gaze under the elms in
the dim dawn of Sunday morning and
saw to his surprise his sisters lover and
horse vanish within the court of the
building.
Perplexed and weary, Roger slowly
retreated, more than ever convinced that
something was wrong in his sisters po-
sition. He crossed the bowling green to
the avenue of elms, and bent on further
research was about to climb into one of
these, when, looking below, he saw a
hole large enough to allow man TO
creep to the hollow interior. Here Roger
ensconced himself, and having eaten a
crust of bread which he had hastily
thrust into his pocket at the inn he fell
asleep upon the stratum of broken
Lockwood that formed the floor of the
hollow.
He slept soundly and long, and was
awakened by the sound of bell. On
peering from the hole he found the time
had advanced to full day. The sun was
shining brightly. The bell was that of
the "faire chappell'' ON the green out
side the gatehouse, and it was calling
to mathis. Presently the priest crossed
the green to a little side door in the
chaucel, and then from the gateway of
the mansion emerged the household, the
tall man whom Roger had seen with
his sister ON the previous night, Oh his
arm being portly dame, and running
beside the pair two little girls and a
boy. These all entered the chapel, and,
the bell having ceased and the environs
become clear, the sailor crept out from
his hiding.
He sauntered toward the chapel, the
opening words of the service being au
dible within. While standing by the
porch he saw belated servitor approach
ing from the kitchen court to attend the
service also. Roger carefully aocosted
him, and asked as an idle wanderer the
name of the family he had just seer
cross over from the mansion.
sod zounds If ye modden be q
stranger here in very truth, good man.
That war Sir John and his dame, and
his children Elizabeth, Mary and John. -
81 be from foreign parts. Sir John
what dye call'n?'
master John Horseleigh knight,
who had a most as much lond by inner,
itance of his mother as a had by his ia,
Their, and likewise some by his wife,
Why, baint his arms dree goolde1
horses heads, and idden his lady the
daughter of Master Richard PhelipsoI
of Montislope. in Neither Wessex, known
to us all?"
'It mid be so, and yet it mid not
However, tn 1t miss thy prayers fol
!. such an honest knights welfare, and
have to traipse seward many miles. "
He went onward, and as he walked
continued saying to himself: "Now t.