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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: houses. It was once the principall street of the town; but many of
these houses of the gentry having been decayed and ruined, it has
lost much of its ancient beautie. Just opposite to this vennel,
there is another that leads north-west, from the chiefe street to the
green, which is a pleasant plott of ground, enclosed round with an
earthen wall, wherein they were wont to play football, but now at the
Gowff and byasse-bowls. The houses of this towne, on both sides of
the street, have their several gardens belonging to them; and in the
lower street there be some pretty orchards, that yield store of good
fruit.' As Patterson says, this description is near enough even to-
day, and is mighty nicely written to boot. I am bound to add, of my
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