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[Amble]side, at Troutbeck Bridge, and at Staveley. But the
charcoal-burning goes on still, we believe, with some
activity in these southern parts of the district. The one
the traveller has just passed was the scene of the life of
two brothers whose name and fame will not be let die. Their
name was Dodgson; and they lived in Cartmel Fell above a
century ago. They were so intent on their wood-cutting that
they spent Sunday in cooking their food for the whole week.
They ate little but oatmeal porridge; and, when that fell
short, they tried Friar Tuck's ostensible diet of dried peas
and hard beans. As they grew old, they began to feel the
need of domestic help. Said the one to the other, "Thou mun
out and tait a wife." "Yes!" was the reply; "if thear be a
hard job, thou olus sets yan tult." The thing was
accomplished, however; and when the old fellows were still
chopping away at upwards of eighty, rain or shine, ill or
well, there was the wife in the dwelling, and children to
help. The brothers left considerable property; but it went
the way of miser's money; and there are no Dodgson's now in
Cartmel Fell.
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All the way to Furness, there are specimens of roads and
lanes which are locally called Ore gates (ways,) from their
being constructed from the slag and refuse of the iron-ore
formerly brought into the peninsula to be smelted, on
account of the abundance of charcoal there. There are few
objects more picturesque, to this day, than the huts of the
woodcutters, who remain on a particular spot till their work
is done. Upon piled stems of trees heather is heaped, to
make a shaggy
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