The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-07-15 00:00:00

The awful events of the morning hadn't frightened our
sailors, and some again essayed a sea voyage, and soon
were seen—

—" To ridet on the flow of the tido,
Or to He in the trough of the am"

Even we landlubbers boat;d across the Cove, and
sulfated the terrors of shipwreck, for we could'ut land as
smartly as l'ortlanders do their lerrete in the surf. There
line record of any leas of life; but H.IL S. Bacawen
won't have any of us that effected that " parlous' land-
ing. Over the hills to the cliff-shelves, where critAmetrs
esaritiessua sprouts from the clefts, more easy to gather
than frotn that place of which Shakespeare writes—

—" Half way down
" Hangs one that gathers samphire--dremlful trade !"
Over turf and thyme and down rock staircases, till we
arrived at the Feed! Forest, where our leader held forth on
eyeads, and the others were kind enough to WC= edified.
I iccaidonally we curdled our blood by creeping to the edZo
and gating down on

—" Racks, in wild confusion hurled,
The remnants of an earlier world,
Or farther still to the blue waves thundering against
the cliffs and breaking into white foam, or further out to
lea, where was the gay and gallant ship—
" Diminished to her cook; her cock a buoy."
Mut samphire, rocks, and fossil forest, even the waves
and ships, would have been nothing without that glorious
sun which gilt the turf, the sheep, the clouds, and cheered
I in till some climbed perpendicular cliffs as if they had
, been "to the manner born." More roaming, more steamer
incursionists, more sunahine, and more high spirits came,
and next we visited the shore to the west. After climbing
I and scuffling, and sand-walking, and trota over tine gravel
almost all of sins, we had time to admire the inaccessible
: chalk cliffs of Albion that reached sheer hundreds of feet
above on, dotted all slyer with flints, or f.tooned
with green samphire in bunches to make a pickle-
gatherer's fortune. Our youngsters harried the limpets
en the wave-washed rocks, found line strawberry
menembryanthemum anemones or blue fringed anthieas
in the tidepools, shouted to the gulls, searched for crabs,
and caught shrimps among the seaweed. Over the
downs again and into another pretty bey, fit site for a
small watering place, and there was the natural arch of
Durdle Door, a oteway in the headland large enough for
a boat in full ma to pan through. Our strongest stone-
thrower only once sent a stone over the headland, and
that at a low part, and then the sea gulls yelled defiance
or applause. Some pecks of barnacle shells were, besides
the chalk, the flints, and other common objects to be seen
here, and over the downs we returned, molehills under
every yard, over which the rabbits raced from us, while
the young gill's sat on the cliff-edges and tried to tempt
us to suicide, Down the valley, where the militia camp had
left circles showing where the tents were, and back to the
Cove Hotel to lobsters and tea, one health had
to be drunk here, that of our Weather Prophet, the
Publisher, who had hit upon this sunshiny day. More
fun, more cornet-playing, harmonicon music, and singing,
excited even the married ones; but the fair damsels were
too shy to be tempted to a dance, and the prettiest shook
the faithfulness even of our discreet engaged bachelors..
Visits to the spring by the side of the hotel, wonder at
the great stones, Ott each for an obelisk) Howergathering,
and other mild dissipations filled up the time till we had
to mount again. Cornet and harmonicon and tambourine
sounded, and we rattled home with song by the light of
the glow-worms and the golden moon. Ile that loved the
Ladies was light as air when he had to open the gates, and
yet he arrival in South-otreet fresh as a daisy. if course
we enlivened the old county town; but it wanted three
quarters of an hour to Sunday, and nex tiny the morning's
reflection was all the brighter for the yesterday's
treat. .

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(Jur pleasure did not end here, for when we got bark
to work, not only had the Workshops Regulation Let
whitening been done, but kind fairies had been at work
making the very doors ot our office bright and clean at
they are seldom leen by the knights of the Mack