The house opened on to a wide lawn, and at the left of the lawn was a paddock and at the right a shrubbery, and the shrubbery led away under its overhanging trees into the most perfect walled-in garden that was ever seen.  The garden was two or three hundred years old.  The oldest inhabitants of the place had never known the time when Cherry Court garden was not the talk of the country.  Visitors came from all parts round to see it.  It was celebrated on account of its very high walls built of red brick, its size, for it covered at least three acres of ground, and its magnificent cherries.  The cherry trees in the Court garden bore the most splendid fruit which could be obtained in any part of the county.  They were in great demand, not only for the girls who lived in the old house and played in the garden, but for the neighbors all over the country.  A big price was always paid for these cherries, for they made such splendid jam, as well as being so full of juice and so ripe and good to eat that their like could not be found anywhere else.