Show WELSH COTTAGES picturesque abole of wales claral population ula tion presently we discovered such a cottage as cockneys Cock dream about hut do not find where rusticity sits em bowered amid roses and jasmine and honeysuckle all in their proper seasons where orchards occupy one moiety of the cottagers land and a strange medley of flower and kitchen garden is in luxuriant and prodigal possession of the other while towering and picturesque ruins close the upland view and a rapid river gleams beyond and between apple trees on the lowlands one happy week we staid here says a writer in an english paper as mellow autumn crept on while the countryside reeked with the sweet smell of and cider making went forward in all the fruitful orchards round about before almost every cottage door were barrels and hogsheads hog kil derkins and luncheons puncheons ons or being filled with fresh cider and each village churan was preparing lor its harvest thanksgiving with gorgeous heaps of red apples golden russet pearl kitchen garden produce and miniature shocks of spinsters Spin youthful and middle aced comely or plain were everywhere busy with the holy and gratifying duty of helping bachelor ccrates curates decorate ecclesiastical interiors deriving much spiritual consolation from approving themselves such useful handmaidens hand maidens of alie church meanwhile impious farmers leaned over field gates and peered into barns and lofts bursting abundance of liar vest and cursed heartily because the kindly fruits of the earth were so plentiful and therefore so cheap it would be a novel sort of providence that should satisfy u farmer |