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"'Aye! he was saying, as he looked this way and that, 'there's the old church, and the old moot-hall, and the old market-place, and the old gabled and thatched houses, and even the old town pump they haven't changed a bit, I reckon, in all these years! Then he caught sight of me, and he smiled. 'Not many changes in this old place, landlady, in your time? he said pleasantly.
He was in and around the church a great deal the vicar and the parish clerk can tell you more about his visits there than I can and he was at the old moot-hall several times, looking over certain old things they keep there, and he visited Ellingham Park twice, and was shown over the house.
Morris wishes to see told in tapestry on the walls of the Moot-Hall of the Hammersmith of Nowhere. It was by tales such as these that he first won a hearing from all lovers of English literature. The story of Jason is but a Greek setting of a folk-tale known among the Gaels as the Battle of the Birds, and in Norse as the Master Maid.
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