And I had not parted myself here a couple of minutes, ere I spied a team of four stout horses coming over the brow of the hill, drawing the stage waggon behind them which plies betwixt Sevenoaks and London.

We took our places for Sevenoaks, intending to remain there all night in order to see Knole, but when we got there we chang'd our minds, and went on to Tunbridge Wells.

The burial-place of William Penn.] KNOLE HOUSE AND SEVENOAKS

=Nearest Station.=Sevenoaks (Knole House is just outside Sevenoaks).

Sevenoaks is famous for its beautiful situation near the Weald of Kent.

The chief charm of Sevenoaks is Knole House, a splendid example of the baronial dwellings that were erected after the Wars of the Roses, when the fortress was no longer so necessary.

The day after, a cyclist riding, feet up, down the hill between Sevenoaks and Tonbridge, very narrowly missed running over a second of these giants that was crawling across the roadway.

They scattered somewhere near Sevenoaks, and near Tonbridge one of them fled clucking for a time in excessive agitation, somewhat ahead of and parallel with the afternoon boat expressto the great astonishment of every one therein.

For a moment it focussed all attention, and then the eye was wrested to another more distant Giant who stood prepared to catch, and it became apparent that the whole area of that great bay in the hills just north of Sevenoaks had been scarred to gigantic ends.

The mile or so of land near Sevenoaks in which their boyhood passed became so trenched, so dug out and twisted about, so covered with sheds and huge working models and all the play of their developing powers, it was like no other place on earth.

The train that came rattling from Sevenoaks athwart their vision, and presently plunged into the tunnel out of their sight, looked by contrast with them like some small-sized automatic toy.

He had come over the hills beyond Sevenoaks, he and his friend, and he it was did the talking.

He would have gone to Sevenoaks if he had been put up to it.

Well, you know, dear, he had told me what it really meant; it means Sevenoaks, only it has got down to Snooksboth Snooks and Noaks, dreadfully vulgar surnames though they be, are really worn forms of Sevenoaks.

Well, you know, dear, he had told me what it really meant; it means Sevenoaks, only it has got down to Snooksboth Snooks and Noaks, dreadfully vulgar surnames though they be, are really worn forms of Sevenoaks.

So I saideven I have my bright ideas at times'If it got down from Sevenoaks to Snooks, why not get it back from Snooks to Sevenoaks?'

So I saideven I have my bright ideas at times'If it got down from Sevenoaks to Snooks, why not get it back from Snooks to Sevenoaks?'

" For two years Miss Winchelsea could not go to see her friends, in spite of the reiterated invitations of Mrs. Sevenoaksit became full Sevenoaks in the second year.

[Illustration] WHERE AND HOW TO SPEND A HAPPY DAY, WEATHER PERMITTING, OF COURSE.Go to Sevenoaks; lovely drive, see Knole Park and House, drive back viâ Farninghamprettiest place possible, and one that the broken-hearted Tupman might have chosen for his retreat from the madding crowdto Dartford, where dine at the ancient hostelrie called "The Bull." Recommended by the Punch faculty, the Bull and no mistake.

(Front a Photo by Mr. Corke, of Sevenoaks.)

Knole, Sevenoaks.

(From a Photo by Mr. Corke, of Sevenoaks.)]

The illustration is from a photograph taken by Mr. Corke, of Sevenoaks.

LORD, Knole Park, Sevenoaks.

A dozen men made casts, and Juan Mesa, a Mexican from the Eagle Chief, lassoed a fine buck, while "Pard" Sevenoaks, from the J+H, fastened to the smallest one in the band.