All in a garden fair; the simple story of three boys ... - University Library

CHAPTER I.
THE VILLAGE GREEX.
All the houses of the vilhige stand along one
side of a broad road which leads, like all other
roads, to London and to Eo.r.e. It is not a
high-road, and has but little trafTic. It is only
a road which connects one small town with
another small town—Romford, in fact, with
Chi})ping Ongar. When the road was con-
structed there was so mucli ground to spare
that they did not trouble about breadth, and
allowed to remain a belt of grass t\venty, thirty, j
or forty feet wide on the side of it. The houses
of the village vary in size from the great square
villa set in a great square garden, to the little
cottage of four rooms built of i)lanks painted
white, with a high pointed gable and porch