Will these carvings be used in the new meeting house? We were told perhaps a few would be taken, and the rest might be copied. On the whole the people would be in favour of doing fresh ones and giving their meeting house a modern look. It seemed then that most of the old carvings would be left where they were. And so would the old timbers, some decaying. To those who left them on that field, the difference between the timbers and the carvings was not perhaps as great as it would be to a visitor. Both belonged to a sacred past and were regarded with the same piety. And perhaps too there is behind the reluctance to transfer these carvings something more than just a love for the new; perhaps they are too much charged with the past to be comfortable for