said to me, "When you interfere with the tides you must wait for the effect; you cannot predict it." So back to Felixstowe, varying the cross-country route to the main road a little by following the sense of direction without consulting any maps, and seeing nothing worthy of notice except a belated heron, its long legs stretched behind its slow-flapping wings, making its way from the sea to some distant heronry and croaking sadly as it went, as though to say, "The moon will give no light to-night, so I must perforce go fasting." That is a Welsh version of the heron's melancholy call--please note that the heron always wears half mourning--but the marsh men doubtless express the same thought in some way, for it is sound ornithology, and they know their birds passing well. CHAPTER VI--(_continued_) FELIXSTOWE, BAWDSEY, WOODBRIDGE, IPSWICH, DUNMOW AND LONDON A stormy morning--Past golf-links to Bawdsey Ferry--Sir Cuthbert Quilter's work of reclamation--A short climb but very stiff--Some remote byways to Woodbridge--Heavy rain--Value of cape hood--Drawbacks of transparent screens--Ipswich again--More Cobbolds, more hospitality--Ipswich oysters and gloves--The "Crown and Anchor"--An architect and antiquary--Jingling prophecy--An abbot's bones and "extra dry"--Another car arrives for us--Off for Dunmow--A frightened horse and an awkward rider--Rules of conduct in such cases--Through Braintree (remarks postponed) to Great Dunmow--Little Dunmow the true _locus classicus_--Leland and the Flitch--Far-fetched theories and an obvious explanation--The heart of the forest country--The old forest included Epping, Hainault, and Hatfield Forests--Hainault restored--Hardships of old forest law--Dunmow to Takeley--Hatfield Broad Oak and Heath--A view of hounds--High Ongar, Epping, and London, reversing original order--The drive reviewed.