You can't think what primitive people they are hereabouts--descendants from an old colony of Flemish cloth-weavers: they keep to the trade.

Down in the valley--if one could see through the beech wood--is the grand support of the neighbourhood, a large cloth mill!" "That's quite in your line, John;" and I saw his face brighten up as it had done when, as a boy, he had talked to me about his machinery.

"What has become of that wonderful little loom you made ?" "Oh! I have it still.

But this is such a fine cloth-mill!--I have been all over it.

If the owner would put aside his old Flemish stolidity! I do believe he and his ancestors have gone on in the same way, and with almost the same machinery, ever since Queen Elizabeth's time.
Now, just one or two of our modern improvements, such as--but I forget, you never could understand mechanics." "You can, though.