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The house is pleasantly situate, the timber, both oak and elm, growing large there; the country well-wooded, well-tilled, and served by narrow deep lanes descending to the highways, as well as by the New Navigation of the river Gipping going soberly from weir to weir between its willows, bordered by water meadows and rough pastures set 'with little Spinn'eys, cars and reed-beds, where one was sure of duck and snipe after frost, and of water-hen all the year round. On these greens we would get black geese in hard weather, but they were none so easy to come at. It was indeed an excellent sporting estate, full of partridge of the old sort, for the red-leg, or French bird, had not then won the mastery and become the pest he is to-day. It was beside as well stocked with hares as any manor in Suffolk, and is so still.
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