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'Well, how goes the peat-graving?' said I, and a ruddy-faced Norseman from a Threlkeld farm said, 'Aw, gaily weel, sir; but I'm thinking we mud hev nae mair kings upo' the throane, for this job will finish t' peat moss, and peats are hard to finnd within reach o' Skiddaw top. You see,' said he, 'it's lost its wire, and peat widout wire in it is nae use for makking a "low" wid.'
I saw that what he called 'wire' were the rootlets of the ancient undergrowth of years gone by, the matted texture of primeval springtides, and, stooping down, he broke a peat across and showed me the wire. 'You kna,' he continued, 'we shall just leave peats ligging here, and thoo mun send up scheul-lads to spreead them in a forthnet's time. Then they mud coom oop a week laater and shift 'em and turn them, and then a week laater they mud coom and foot 'em. That is if thoo want 'em in fettle by Coronation-daay, for they are ter'ble watter-sick noo.'
'Foot them?' I said. 'What do you mean?' And the shepherd took a couple and leaned them one against another, and showed me how thus a draught of air passed between the peats and ensured their drying. 'Well, good-daay, good-daay. But we mud hev nae mair kings to be crooned,' said he; 'for peat moss ull nobbut howd oot for this un, I'm thinking.'
I bade farewell, and down to the valley I went, noting how doubly near and blue the hills and vales all seemed to grow, as one passed down beneath the veils of haze which had lent both greyness and distance to the view. Again I saw the swallow skim; again I watched the gorgeous butterflies, and, with a wand of palm-flower that had just lost its gold, and the rosy plumelets of the larch in my hand, I made the best of my way homeward, through air that throbbed and thrilled with the voice of thrush and blackbird, and felt the deep contrast between these silent flockless slopes of Skiddaw, and the ringing singing valley at his feet.
INDEX
A
Adelaide, Queen, 46.
Ambleside, 18, 22, 44, 53.
Angler, Complete, 120.
April song, 81.
Arnold, Dr., 19, 50.
Aveling's town, King, 59.
B
Ballads, Lyrical, by Wordsworth, 125.
Barf, 169.
Bassenthwaite, 97, 102, 105, 107, 169.
Beltane fire, 147.
Birthright, The Christian, 162.
Black Hill, 197.
Blencathra, 113, 165, 192, 212, 214, 215.
Boon Beck, 30.
Bootle, 172.
Borderside, 131, 132, 140, 143, 144.
Borrodale, 52, 180, 183, 197, 213, 214.
Borrow Bridge, 143.
Bowness Church, 138.
Brandelhow, 197, 208, 210, 214, 215, 216.
Brankers, 49.
Brigham-cum-Mosser-cum-Lorton, 173.
Brougham Castle, Feast of, by Wordsworth, 191.
Broughton-in-Furness, 220.
Browne, William George, 98.
Browning, Robert, note, 5.
Brownrigg of Brownrigg, 202.
Brundholme, 157.
Butcher lad's reminiscences of Wordsworth, 8.
Burns, 141.
C
Caermote, 104, 106.
Calling, The Gentleman's, 162.
Carlisle, City arms of, 96.
Carlyle, 96, 141, 164.
Carnigill, 143.
Cartmell Fell, 121, 125, 147.
Castle Hill, 213, 214.
Castrigg Fell, 191.
Cat Bels, 212, 215.
Cat Ghyll, 181.
Causey Pike, 109.
Cavalier, Memoirs of a, 120.
Chartres Cathedral, 90.
Chestnut Hill, 110.
Christmas season in Grasmere, 71.
Clappersgate, 49.
"Clock, The Village," 30.
Cockermouth, 173, 218, 220, 221, 223, 224, 226.
Coleridge, Hartley, 12, 19, 23, 24, 25, 31, 36, 38, 43, 44, 50, 58, 138.
Colthouse, 141.
Coniston, 2; Fells, 125.
Contentment, The Art of, 162.
Cookson, Ann, 218.
Coronation peat-fires, 234.
Cornwall, 197.
Crackenthorpes, 218.
Cropper, James, of Ellergreen, 86.
Crosthwaite, 116, 131, 139, 147, 148, 233; valley, 110, 157; school, 120; church, 197.
Crozier, John, 192, 196, 200, 202, 205.
Curling, 112.
Cuthbert, St., 112.
D
Dalesmen, Characteristics of, 3; Truthfulness of, 5; Comeliness of, 45; Mourning etiquette of, 194; Love of hunting of, 195.
Davy, Dr., 136, 141.
Day, A Winter, on Derwentwater, 207.
Day with Roman and Norse, 94.
Defoe, 120.
De Quincey, 76.
Derwent, 65, 103, 219, 222, 233.
Derwent Hill, 67.
Derwentwater, 97, 109, 181, 217.
Devon, 197.
Druid's Circle, 191, 199.
Dungeon Ghyll, 39.
E
Egremont, Lord of, 224.
Elizabeth, Spacious times of Great, 155.
Elleray, 51.
Esk, 59.
Esthwaite Lake, 29.
Excursion, The, by Wordsworth, 127.
Exploits, Nelson's, 155.
F
Falcon Crag, 181, 182.
Fell Side, 147.
Fiddler's Farm, 17, 19.
Fire-worshippers, 147.
Fox, George, 172; his Journal, 166, 173.
Fox head, Price of, 193.
Foxhow, 17, 19.
Fox hunting, 193, 197.
Friar's Crag, 208.
Francis, St., 145, 216.
Frozen Fell, 152.
G
Gardener lad's reminiscences of Wordsworth, 10.
Gaul, Amadis de, 120.
George the Waller, 17; his wrestling match, 22.
Gimmer Crag, 102.
Glaramara, 109, 213, 228.
Glenderaterra, 157.
Goodwin, Harvey, Bishop of Carlisle, 88.
Gough, Benjamin, 121, 141.
Gough, Thomas, 145.
Gowder Crag, 178, 184.
Grasmere, 6, 35, 38, 70.
Grasmere actors, 70; stage managers, 72.
Grasmere Common, 31, 32 f.
Grasmoor, 109, 169, 172, 178, 207.
Graves, Perceval, 141; quotations from, 140, 143.
Greenhead Ghyll, 30.
Greta, 157, 179, 228.
Grisedale, 28, 33, 109, 178, 207, 216; Pass, 31.
Guide to the Lakes, 20, 21.
Gulls, With the black-headed, 59.
Gummershow, 125.
H
Hawell, Joseph, a Skiddaw Shepherd, 150.
Hawkshead, 223.
Helvellyn, 109, 113, 134, 207.
Herdhouse, 172.
Heversham, 133; Grammar School, 88.
High Crag, 140.
High Stile, 172.
Hindscarth, 109.
Hobcarton Crag, 169.
Hodge Hill, 147.
Honister, 213.
Hope Ghyll, 171.
Hounds, Training of, 197; Breed of, 201.
Hunt, Master of the, 191.
Hunting song, 199.
Hutchinson, Mary, 221.
I
Ireby, 99.
Irt, 59.
K
Keats, 187.
Kendal, 51, 53, 87, 118, 121, 122, 132; Grammar School, 88.
Ketel's Well, 183.
Kettle, Roman, 100.
Keswick, 52, 73, 100, 108, 112, 151, 156, 157, 166, 176, 183, 208; 224; Sea-gulls in, 64.
Kiln Hill, 201.
Kirkstone Pass, 119.
Krall of a Norse Chieftain, 99.
L
Lamb, Charles, 187.
Lamb, The Pet, 30.
Lancaster, James, 172.
Landnama, Bok of Iceland, 86.
Langdale, 52.
Latrigg, 100, 111, 112, 228.
Lewthwaite, Barbara, 29.
Lingholme, 209.
Lodore, 182 to 188, 213; after storm, 176.
Lonscale, 150, 152, 156, 164, 232.
Lonsdale, Lord, 225.
Lorton, 166; Yew, 173.
Loughrigg, 22, 27, 49, 74.
Loweswater, 170.
Lythe, 137.
Lythe Marsh, 145.
M
Macaulay, Zachary, 86.
Man, The whole duty of, 162.
Manchester, 123 to 131.
Mellbreak, 172.
Milton, 128, 141, 221.
Mite, 59.
Mona's Isle, 59.
Mons Angelorum, 215.
Mons Beata, 212, 214.
Mons Blencathrae, 214.
Mons Borgadalis, 214.
Morecambe Bay, 119.
Muncaster Fell, 59, 60.
N
Nab Cottage, 23 f., 39.
Naddle, 208.
Need fire, 147.
Nether Stowey, 224.
Nicholson, Cornelius, 133.
Nimrod, A North-Country, 189.
O
Orthwaite, 97.
P
Page-boy's reminiscences of Wordsworth, 44.
Patterdale, 167.
Patrick, James, of Kendal, 122.
Paris Exhibition, 90.
Pearson, Mrs., 118.
Pearson, William, of Borderside, 116; his admiration for Wordsworth, 125; his character, 128; letter to Wordsworth, 136; his tour on the Continent, 138 f.
Peat-fuel, 234.
Peel's horn, 101; his Norse ancestor, 107.
Peel, John, 196, 201.
Pelter Bridge, 41.
Penistone, 219.
Penrith, 52, 218, 220, 221, 223.
Play, At the Grasmere, 69; analysis of, 74 f.
Poems, by W. Wordsworth, 125.
Poole, 224.
Portinscale, 197.
Prelude, The, by Wordsworth, 121, 122.
Protestant Alliance, 136.
R
Rake, 97.
Ravenglass, 60, 68, 183; sand-dunes, 59.
Red Pike, 172.
Redbank, 27, 35, 48.
Reed's English Literature, 141.
Richardson, John, 200.
Robinson, 216.
Robinson Crusoe, 120.
Roman Camp, 105.
Roncesvalles, 120.
Rossetti, Christina, 92.
Ruskin, 2, 211.
Rydal chimneys, 19 f., 31.
Rydal Falls, 46.
Rydal Valley, 17.
S
Saddleback, 152.
St. John-in-the Vale, 200, 208.
Scafell, 102, 109, 228.
Scott, Sir Walter, 2, 141.
Sea-gulls, 60 f.
Seascale, 63.
Sedbergh Grammar School, 88.
Shakespeare, 85, 128, 141, 221.
Sheep, Skiddaw, 231.
Shepherd's Crag, 178.
Shepherd's Cross, 232.
Shepherd Lord, Song of the, by Wordsworth, 191.
Shoulthwaite, 193.
Silence, Mountain, 227.
Skiddaw, 94, 96, 98, 100, 101, 109, 113, 157, 168, 178, 188, 194, 227.
Smith, Thomas, 127, 134.
Solway, 101.
Somersby Wold, 1.
Southey, 50, 94, 107, 181; letter to his brother, 187.
Spedding, James, 96.
Spenser, 221.
Squirrels, 210.
Stanley, A Shepherd's likeness to Dean, 151.
Stockdale, 151.
Stott of Oldham, 61.
Strathclyde, 112.
Styhead Pass, 183, 197.
Superstitions of Westmoreland, 146.
Swallows, 229.
Swan, Inn, 36, 39.
T
Tarn-foot, 48.
Tebay, 143.
Tennyson, 96, 227.
Tewfit tarn, 208.
Theatre, Grasmere, 73.
Threlkeld, 190, 192, 203, 204.
Tilberthwaite's Yew-tree, 167.
Titmice, 213.
Tongue Ghyll beck, 31.
Town End, 20, 37.
U
Uldale, 99, 151, 152.
Ulf, the Norseman, 101.
Underbarrow, 120.
V
Viking chieftain's burial ground, 111.
Victoria Bay, 216.
W
Walla Crag, 188, 216.
Walla Lake, 215.
Walla Wood, 212.
Walls Castle, 60.
Walton, Isaac, 120.
Wanthwaite Crags, 201.
Wars, Wellington's, 155.
Watendlath, 179.
Waterton, 141.
Watson, James, of Kendal, 123.
Westmoreland, 16, 27, 69 f., 87, 93, 116, 146, 197.
Whinfell Hall, 171.
Whinlatter Pass, 113, 172.
Whitbeck, 232.
White Moss Tarn, 27.
White of Selborne, 141.
Whiteside, 172.
Wilson, of Elleray, Professor, 50 f.
Windermere, 119.
Winster, 121, 127, 145; Vale, 118, 119, 122; River, quotation from Pearson, 130.
Wordsworth, Dora, 58, 131.
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 7, 14, 35, 49, 58, 134, 136, 223.
Wordsworth, John, 218 f.
Wordsworth, Rev. John, 12.
Wordsworth, Mrs., 10, 23, 25, 34, 41, 44, 46, 49, 51.
Wordsworth, William, Reminiscences of peasantry about, 1 ff.
Wordsworth, William, junior, 37.
Wylie Ghyll, 152, 156.
Wythburn, 195.
Wythop, 102, 113, 169.
Y
Yews, The, 118, 122, 124, 131, 132.
Yew-tree, A famous, 166.
Yorkshire, 129.