Age, of course, has settled the question here and there.
A mill that has inspired a hundred artists stood the other day across the water from a little island in the Ouse at Godmanchester. It lasted for a long while after its proper activities were stilled, as a stable and in some sort a store- house, as well as an artist's model ; but as you made your dangerous way among its pillars of oak and loose planks of elm, you felt that the old cart horse who was stabled there might any moment suffer the fate of Samson and by leaning too hard on a pillar bring the beautiful ruin to the ground and water. With what a splendid rush of power the water now vainly surges beneath the place of the vanished wheel ! Neither stone nor water will ever again, they say, help to turn English wheat into flour and allow a Godmanchester resident to eat a local loaf.
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