Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-07-30
POET wAKEMAN's wANDERrNes
The Noted Keswick Conventions and
Their Founder, Canon Battersby.
Remarkable Assembiages Seeking
Alone "Resting Faith"-Tbe Eng
lish Lake District.


ancient Cumbrian capital of the English
lake district was 80 peculiar Il one,
that in my pslgdmings in Britain l am
often drawn back here at this pleasant
season of the year, for an undehnahe
sort Of contemplation and rest. l had
come over the mountains on foot from
yagrant loiterings among the peasantry of
Miterdale, Wasdale, Watendlath, and
Borrowdale, and striking into the old
coach road from Windermere. had ling
erred bit in the mystic vale of St John.
Hesumlng my way along the coach
road leading over bold Castle Rigg into
heswlck. being dusty and travel-stained
and doubtless regarded as a tramp by
the hundreds of tourists passing in their
gay coaches, traps, gigs and wagonettes,
saw American manners abroad nlus-
trated by millionaire American tourist,
whom i recognized, tossing the remains
OF lunch hamper upon my head and
shoulders at which exploit his diamond
spangled brood laughed melTily aud long;
Wngllsh manners exemplihed by several
gentlemen whips" attempting to cut my
shoulders or face as they dashed past
and Scotch and Irish manners shown
by a delicious old ScOtchman and an
equally delicious young Dublin barrister-
men of account in their separate places,
IN their yacation-time really seeing the
lake country on their own legs-jogging
along towards Grasmere together. CON
tending with amiable ferocity as to which
race. had priority in Britain, and both.
as they met me- as valiantly insisting on
being the first to accost me and offer
me roadside consolation from their respec-
tive TASKS,
With these and likefengageing divers.
ions l trudged cheeriy TO the north of
Castle Rigg. Reaching ITS top turned
for u farewell look toward toward the
glorious Southern scenes of the lake re-
gton. On the one hand was the seeming
~ endless fells, odorous with the new
blooming heath, and here and there
masses of blue from banks of violets.
gentle breeze stirring the sea-like e1-
panse of color as If with riotous motion
and delight On the other, as If some
misty cauldron, fashioned out of ne.
ther earth, the purple shapes and shad-
ows OF st. Johns vHle and above it
below, within and above the clouds.
monarch Helvellyn-f At its
base; cleft aud Scared above; still high
er, striped with understanding torrents
like mighty plumes of white; and its
lofty broken summit and famous "Strid-
ing Edge" showing thousands of black
ened almost vertical burrows in the
eternal stone of its peaks and ridges.
If here was one Of those ravishng
scenes which can never be elfaced from
the memory, but a few steps over the
mountain top furnished another of equal
beauty and impresSivcncss. 1t wns per-
hntnrA
ginrions vale of JScsu,ici, or n,r,ro,,t.
s,,ntar a ,bnrs,n1 Tot I"t,,r ,.,,nh TN
onI foir in WOW Kesyirl, gray nnJ sn,r
was half hidden within IL 6osso,n IA
tbn right Shdllebock md Sonter Fell
lay lay in lofty bllOwy moors against
the horizon, and the silvery threads Of
Gretu river wound in and ont of the lush
s'i."n,aJ tho nnnoy renrbss az Dervent,
49,. ,ritb ,i,is Iai,,h,ts az Causoy pito
and 1,rns tm i,,y,7nJ ne,ks ~ s,iIron
md nnrnle in tbc slant rnys of The sink
mg am. Reyond the tower Of old Cross.
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a. stano Tiata.,nst 4 hinge sycamore
80 sa,,,rS be5ida the cottage. An old
scrying.mnn wns cropping the hedge by
a. ,.s,n stood nnd looked al the
the gut uslo .;,,o Cor II scanned 10
p i,,o H., ~ ,,,so must have a history. The
w .ie h'I t,n,;,,,r M, avn observance.
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slowly along Tue rd nGisSnes snocriorIty;
WI. an an ye eif ma a. R%eei ieaG asin an asn,
heepor. -, a.1 IootcJ ogoin as hidden,
hat lS 90 jSo@ ara IVNt hat The d man
put ~ MY H. haige.clinping and clearing
resumns MS ~ he9 ~ ,r,nnions annonnce
his throat rs u ior p ,a onni"in
mem{; GohuSsce HI VERA hoos master
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DOVE (Fit for nothingl
thanked ,l hin for %b 5aG e Sffs 't Rs
v,an,oSr Win Il that this was indeed
the ysrtabie cottage nri SheT Spd S %hers
,hey aha sed each other like happy child
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