Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 285: July to December, 1898The road is level, and so is the wide green which it bounds. The space of the road and the green is pleasant for the eye to feed upon.By the curving side of the road and opposite to the green are little gardens, amongst whose plum and apple trees stand back cottages. They are poor, those people who live there. But when they look across the green they can see a great red house, whose polished windows often flash golden light through the decrepit branches of most ancient yews. It is a mansion that great red house, and the woods at its side stand stifliy with great trunks of poplar and fir. Towards the sweep of these woods as they proudly measure their height against a low oak paling which bounds the green, curves the road. And where they meet stands back the Three Fishes, With its massive sign-post. To this inn the road has sent a broad path, ere it rules straightly by the side of the wood to another part of Buckinghamshire.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.