Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery
axon Names-K?mpe Viser-Steam-Norman Barons-
854. We flew through part of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire in a train which we left at Ely, and getting into another, which did not fly quite so fast as the one we had quieted, reached th
ver the deep quiet Nen, on the southern bank of which stands the station, and soon arrived at the cathedral-unfortunately we wer
Peter, as the Saxon Chronicle says, a book which I went through carefully in my younger days, when I studied Saxon, for, as I have already told the reader, I was in those days a bit of a philologist. Like the first, the second edifice was originally a monastery, and continued so till the time of the Reformation; both were abodes of learning; for if the Saxon Chronicle was commenced in the monkish cells of the first
it until we were weary, we returned to our inn, an
treat in the cheese, Cheshire cheese has always been reckoned excellent, and now that I am in the capital of the cheese country, of course I shall have some of the very prime." Well, the tea, loaf and butter made their appearance, and with them my cheese and ale. To my horror the cheese had much the appearance of soap of the commonest kind, which indeed I found it much resembled in taste, on putting a small portion into my mouth. "Ah," said I, after I had opened the window and ejected the
ster ale! I could
ound-ivy, of di
as a river bel
a dog, far less
find execrable. Patience! I shall not fall into a passion, more especially as there are things I can fall back upo
d two strapping chambermaids, one of which was a Welsh girl, with whom I soon scraped acquaintance, not, I assure the reader, for the sake of the pretty Welsh eyes which she carried in her