29 OCTOBER 1932, Page 14

His last successor, an equally good man in his way,

is now deprived of the work for which he was trained, but a miller's man can do anything. His very last job of work before leaving the mill was not without pathos. The miller's young daughter drew a plan on paper and he was asked to carry it out. The work was done faithfully and with effective speed. In front of the driving wheel, alongside the pool held up since A.D. 1000, and perhaps much earlier, for using the power of the water, a little sunk circular rock garden has come into being, and at the side is a sundial on a pedestal. The centre of the garden and the base of the dial are round grinding stones. They fulfil a decorative use ; but it is difficult not to think of them as tombstones over the grave of a departed life.