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the aisle." "Wha's comin' now?" asked the blind priest; and,
being informed by the clerk that it was John T---, he
inquired further, "a-foot or a-horse-back?" Odd sprinklings
of learning are found in these by-places, as in Scotland.
Some students staying at this same little inn, and wanting
to settle their account, wrote a note in Latin to the
landlord, asking for the bill, and sent it by the girl who
waited. Mr. Gunson, the landlord, (from whom the present
landlord is descended) immediately sent in the bill in
Greek. It was too much for the students, who where obliged
to ask to have it in English. There was a "heigh larned"
woman, not far from hence, who married a farmer on the moor.
When every body was lamenting the hard times, she declared
that, for her part, she should be contented if she could
obtain food and raiment; whereupon her husband rebuked her
presumption. "Thoo fule," said he: "thoo dusn't think
thoo'st to hev mare than other folk. I'se content wi'
meeat and claes."
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Newfield Church, in Seathwaite, is the place where Robert
Walker, called "the Wonderful," exercised his office for
sixty years. The grey farmsteads stand under their
sycamores, dispersed in the vale, and up the slope which
meets the Walna Scar track from Coniston. Rocky and wooded
knolls diversify the dale; and the full beck runs down to
join the Duddon, for which it is often mistaken: but the
Duddon is unseen here, so deep lies its channel among the
rocks. The church is little loftier or larger than the
houses near, But for the bell, the traveller would hardly
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