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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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After
some
time
we
descended
towards
a
broad
vale,
passed
one
farm-house,
sheltered
by
fir
trees,
with
a
burn
close
to
it;
children
playing,
linen
bleaching.
The
vale
was
open
pastures
and
corn-fields
unfenced,
the
land
poor.
The
village
of
Crawfordjohn
on
the
slope
of
a
hill
a
long
way
before
us
to
the
left.
Asked
about
our
road
of
a
man
who
was
driving
a
cart;
he
told
us
to
go
through
the
village,
then
along
some
fields,
and
we
should
come
to
a
"herd's
house
by
the
burn
side."
The
highway
was
right
through
the
vale,
unfenced
on
either
side;
the
people
of
the
village,
who
were
making
hay,
all
stared
at
us
and
our
carriage.
We
inquired
the
road
of
a
middle-aged
man,
dressed
in
a
shabby
black
coat,
at
work
in
one
of
the
hay
fields;
he
looked
like
the
minister
of
the
place,
and
when
he
spoke
we
felt
assured
that
he
was
so,
for
he
was
not
sparing
of
hard
words,
which,
however,
he
used
with
great
propriety,
and
he
spoke
like
one
who
had
been
accustomed
to
dictate.
Our
car
wanted
mending
in
the
wheel,
and
we
asked
him
if
there
was
a
blacksmith
in
the
village.
"Yes,"
he
replied,
but
when
we
showed
him
the
wheel
he
told
William
that
he
might
mend
it
himself
without
a
blacksmith,
and
he
would
put
him
in
the
way;
so
he
fetched
hammer
and
nails
and
gave
his
directions,
which
William
obeyed,
and
repaired
the
damage
entirely
to
his
own
satisfaction
and
the
priest's,
who
did
not
offer
to
lend
any
assistance
himself;
not
as
if
he
would
not
have
been
willing
in
case
of
need;
but
as
if
it
were
more
natural
for
him
to
dictate,
and
because
he
thought
it
more
fit
that
William
should
do
it
himself.
He
spoke
much
about
the
propriety
of
every
man's
lending
all
the
assistance
in
his
power
to
travellers,
and
with
some
ostentation
of
self-praise.
Here
I
observed
a
honeysuckle
and
some
flowers
growing
in
a
garden,
the
first
I
had
seen
in
Scotland.
It
is
a
pretty
cheerful-looking
village,
but
must
be
very
cold
in
winter;
it
stands
on
a
hillside,
and
the
vale
itself
is
very
high
ground,
unsheltered
by
trees.
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