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40 ADVENTURES OF YOUR OWN COKRESPONDENTS...
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our request was _asserted to , and very good tea ve Lad , strong and It green , and lovel quite drive brisk The we were thunder when clouds we took rolled our over places the afresh moun . -
tains was as each a turn y in the . road showed us fresh vallies and peaks , all quiet , and vastand perfectldesolateNow and-thenbut very
rarely , a bright patch , of purple y heather . lit up the gray stony , crags , and round every piece of rock nestled a wreath of parsley fern ,
which we mean is peculiar to transmit to this per nei post ghbourhood to London , and , for a the specimen fernery of of which a
certain friend of ours . The rain ceased , the scent of bog myrtle , or , air to call 9 the it horses by its were prettier inspirited name b , y sweet their rest gale and , lay their on the com that fresh , however the damp road
grew less steep , and A . and I suddenly remembered , unworth Woman' y s , she Journ and al" I Were in this the remote only representatives region , and that of the , as " such English , it
behoved us to meet our difficulties like women . That reflectioncombined with tea , did its work , and we nagged
no morenonot even , when we lost our way and discovered we had passed " Here the , we turning , are" to cried Strands A . " and and this must is go the back very . loveliest place we
,, liave a barn seen . The , so desolate door was and open lonel and y . it " was At li that ghted moment up . I we caug drove ht si past ght ainst
of a number of old men and women ranged on tier & of seats ag the wall
Were " A leap methodist . ing and meeting dancing / in ' thoug front ht of I , the but audience no , for . two What little could boys
it be ? But at that moment we drove up to a little public-house which was at last Strands . Very homely , but very clean it all other all
wanted seemed ; was we to declined to bed any refreshment Here was and our assured Eden reached each , and now we
we might begin go to enjoy . it . "We inquired if the landlady knew Farmer Ritson o £ Wastdale Head . that
very " Yes nig , ht she and knew we * him could , and see in her fact . She Mrs . had Ritson come was to ' down t' dancing ' -
master ' s ball . " " The dancing-master ' s ball ! was that going on in the barn
near ?" " Yes , and if we liked we could go . " Two blue Ball tickets were
produced were a shilling on which each was , and printed threepence " Mr extra . Broeklebank would be 's required . " at They the
door . Go ? Of course we would go ! Our hats were hastily resumed
and off we started , accompanied by the landlady , from , whom we found that Mr . Brocklebank was a travelling dancing-master who
taken went weeks from from were p their lace delivered t schools o place over , ; if that to they him the -went for youth four to of any the hour , and nei s a g day hbourhood for ei ; g at ht the or were end ten
of which time he gave two balls to show off the proficiency of his
40 Adventures Of Your Own Cokrespondents...
40 ADVENTURES OF YOUR OWN _COKRESPONDENTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 40, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/40/
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