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August 5, 1908.

Wednesday morning we walked up to the market square. I found the rows of canvas awning counters with their various displays for sale, quite amusing. It seemed such a funny way to sell, so like a fair.

Instead of going back to the Victoria we went to the King's restaurant, opposite the market place for lunch and had fine English mutton chops.

Edwinstowe is a little town, of five hundred inhabitants, (not far from Nottingham) in the midst of the Sherwood forest. Although it is the smallest place, in England, we have stayed at, we get the best coffee.

We had come to Nottingham and Edwinstowe to see the haunts of Robinhood.

August 6, 1908.

Thursday morning, a cloudy day we walked out to the forest to see the Major Oak, a fine spreading oak over a thousand years old. The branches have been chained and the holes plastered to preserve it. Ten people can stand in the hollow of the trunk. An