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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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Clarkson
amused
us
with
many
stories
of
her
family
and
of
persons
whom
she
had
known.
I
wish
I
had
set
them
down
as
I
heard
them,
when
they
were
fresh
in
my
memory....
Mrs.
Clarkson
knew
a
clergyman
and
his
wife
who
brought
up
ten
children
upon
a
curacy,
sent
two
sons
to
college,
and
he
left
£1000
when
he
died.
The
wife
was
very
generous,
gave
food
and
drink
to
all
poor
people.
She
had
a
passion
for
feeding
animals.
She
killed
a
pig
with
feeding
it
over
much.
When
it
was
dead
she
said,
"To
be
sure
it's
a
great
loss,
but
I
thank
God
it
did
not
die
clemmed"
(the
Cheshire
word
for
starved).
Her
husband
was
very
fond
of
playing
back-gammon,
and
used
to
play
whenever
he
could
get
anybody
to
play
with
him.
She
had
played
much
in
her
youth,
and
was
an
excellent
player;
but
her
husband
knew
nothing
of
this,
till
one
day
she
said
to
him,
"You're
fond
of
back-gammon,
come
play
with
me."
He
was
surprised.
She
told
him
she
had
kept
it
to
herself,
while
she
had
a
young
family
to
attend
to,
but
that
now
she
would
play
with
him!
So
they
began
to
play,
and
played
every
night.
Mr.
C.
told
us
many
pleasant
stories.
His
journey
from
London
to
Wisbeck
on
foot
when
a
schoolboy,
knife
and
stick,
postboy,
etc.,
the
white
horse
sleeping
at
the
turnpike
gate
snoring,
the
turnpike
man's
clock
ticking,
the
burring
story,
the
story
of
the
mastiff,
bull-baiting
by
men
at
Wisbeck.
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