CHAPTER XII

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Breakfast at the Inn.—A Tale of High Life.—The Garden of the Inn.—An old Farm-House.—Timber Houses.—Labourer’s Cottages.—Wattles and Noggin Walls.—A “Ferme Ornée.”—A Lawn Pasture.—The Copper-Leaved Beech.—Tame Black Cattle.—Approach to Chester. 104

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Chester without.—A Walk on the Walls.—Antiquities.—Striking Contrasts. 111

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