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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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After
dinner
set
off
towards
Hamilton,
but
on
foot,
for
we
had
to
turn
aside
to
the
Cartland
Rocks,
and
our
car
was
to
meet
us
on
the
road.
A
guide
attended
us,
who
might
almost
in
size,
and
certainly
in
activity,
have
been
compared
with
William's
companion
who
hid
himself
in
the
niche
of
the
cavern.
His
method
of
walking
and
very
quick
step
soon
excited
our
attention.
I
could
hardly
keep
up
with
him;
he
paddled
by
our
side,
just
reaching
to
my
shoulder,
like
a
little
dog,
with
his
long
snout
pushed
before
him--for
he
had
an
enormous
nose,
and
walked
with
his
head
foremost.
I
said
to
him,
"How
quick
you
walk!"
he
replied,
"That
was
not
quick
walking,"
and
when
I
asked
him
what
he
called
so,
he
said
"Five
miles
an
hour,"
and
then
related
in
how
many
hours
he
had
lately
walked
from
Lanerk
to
Edinburgh,
done
some
errands,
and
returned
to
Lanerk--I
have
forgotten
the
particulars,
but
it
was
a
very
short
time--and
added
that
he
had
an
old
father
who
could
walk
at
the
rate
of
four
miles
an
hour,
for
twenty-four
miles,
any
day,
and
had
never
had
an
hour's
sickness
in
his
life.
"Then,"
said
I,
"he
has
not
drunk
much
strong
liquor?"
"Yes,
enough
to
drown
him."
From
his
eager
manner
of
uttering
this,
I
inferred
that
he
himself
was
a
drinker;
and
the
man
who
met
us
with
the
car
told
William
that
he
gained
a
great
deal
of
money
as
an
errand-goer,
but
spent
it
all
in
tippling.
He
had
been
a
shoe-maker,
but
could
not
bear
the
confinement
on
account
of
a
weakness
in
his
chest.
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