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Afoot in England

CHAPTER Twenty-Two: The Village and "The Stones"
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The apparition is but a restored picture, and pictures of this sort are about us in millions; but for our peace they are rarely visible, as the ability to see them is the faculty of but a few persons in certain moods and certain circumstances.

Here, then, if anywhere in England, we, or the persons who are endowed with this unpleasant gift, might look for visions of the time when Stonehenge was the spiritual capital, the Mecca of the faithful (when all were that), the meeting-place of all the intellect, the hoary experience, the power and majesty of the land.
But no visions have been recorded.

It is true that certain stories of alleged visions have been circulated during the last few years.

One, very pretty and touching, is of a child from the London slums who saw things invisible to others.

This was one of the children of the very poor, who are taken in summer and planted all about England in cottages to have a week or a fortnight of country air and sunshine.


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