Excerpt from Travels Round Our Village: A Berkshire Book It is good in these days of bustle and strife, to drift for a while into some quiet backwater - such as may yet be found in rural England - which the tide of progress stirs but just enough to avert stagnation; where old-world customs and archaic forms of speech still linger and where men go about their daily tasks in a spirit of serene leisureliness, therein copying Nature who never hurries. Of such a sequestered corner, its humours, its homely comedies and simple pathos would I write. The village appears not in Bradshaw - although indeed the Great Western line touches its extreme boundary, so that labourers working in the lower fields need no watch, but time their hours by certain trains, saying, "Ther' goos Tankey, in five minutes us can knock off." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.