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MERRY OLD ENGLAND
 

At Salisbury they have also walls of houses covered with roof-tiles; I have drawn them to delight the tiler whose hands this paper may reach.

In the northern counties they have built cottages of nice grey stone; that is the reason why in London nearly all the houses are built of ugly grey bricks. In Berkshire and Hampshire they have carried out building operations wholesale with paprika-red bricks; that is why in London also there are whole streets of red bricks, as if the angel of death had smeared them with blood. At Bristol

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