An inn of the old-fashioned sort--A chat with "mine host"--A weird experience--Ghost stories--An ancient rectory house--A quaint interior--A haunted passage--Lost in a fog--The game of bowls--An old posting bill--The siege of Alton church--Ants as weather prophets 334 CHAPTER XIX The Meon Valley--Warnford--A hidden church--A house "a million years old"!--A Saxon sun-dial--A ruined home--Corhampton and its Saxon church--A modern "Naboth's Vineyard"--An out-of-the-world village--A curious story--Quaint carvings and their legend--A church tower built by servants 349 CHAPTER XX A tramp's story--A relic of a famous sea-fight--A tame road--Inn gardens--New landlords and old traditions--Chichester market-cross--A wind-swept land--"Dull and dreary Bognor"--A forgotten poet--Littlehampton--Country sights and sounds--A lulling landscape 363 CHAPTER XXI Travel in the old days--Sequestered Sussex--Country homes--A mellow land--A gibbet post and its story--Chiddingly and its church--The Pelham buckle--Wayside crosses--St. Dunstan's tongs and his anvil--A curious brass--Iron Stocks--Home again 379 INDEX 397 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE A MOATED MANOR-HOUSE _Frontispiece_ HAUNTED! 20 A SUSSEX FARMSTEAD 24 OLD COACHING HOSTELRY, SHEFFIELD PARK, SUSSEX 42 AN ANGLER'S MODEST INN 42 AN OLD TUDOR HOME, WEST HOATHLY 67 A PRE-REFORMATION PRIEST-HOUSE, WEST HOATHLY 72 "A GOOD HONEST ALEHOUSE" 87 AT "THE QUEEN'S HEAD" 96 AN OLD MILL 108 OLD TOLL-HOUSE ON BATH ROAD 111 THE VILLAGE POST OFFICE 116 SYDE CHURCH 133 GATEHOUSE, STANWAY 138 SAXON DOORWAY, STANTON LACY CHURCH 159 A BIT OF WILD WALES 170 WELSH MOUNTAINS AND MOORLANDS 186 THE RUINED HALL OF MORETON CORBET 208 HAUGHMOND ABBEY, CHURCH DOORWAY 217 HAUGHMOND ABBEY, CHAPTER-HOUSE 218 BUILDWAS ABBEY, LOOKING EAST 229 BUILDWAS ABBEY, LOOKING WEST 230 MADELEY COURT 236 MADELEY COURT, GATEHOUSE 239 LILLESHALL ABBEY 250 FIGURE OF SIR ARTHUR VERNON, TONG CHURCH 257