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We spent the afternoon in the forest and as Gifford was sketching the Major Oak, one of the keepers came along and held a conversation with him. He seems to be fond of artists and said that although the public was not allowed all through the forest, if Gifford would come to-morrow he would take him through it. It would have been lovely, but we were going to leave the next day.

Saturday 8, 1908.

Saturday morning on our way to York, we stopped at Lincoln to see the Cathedral. We arrived there about noon and had lunch at a small Elizabethan restaurant that we discovered by chance. From the restaurant windows there is a veiw of the river down to High Bridge. The river runs through the town and several houses are built over it.

It is a steep walk up to the Cathedral, but very quaint, through streets of shamble houses. There is one house different from the others, of brown stone, that's called the Jews House. The Jews were massacred in it for crucifying