The Chap-book; semi-monthly . yone precipitatelyissuing from the cottage must run his chance of a brokenhead. So far as I am aware, it is peculiar to the littlecorner of country about Girvan. And that corner isnoticeable for more reasons : it is certainly one of themost characteristic districts in Scotland. It has thismovable porch by way of architecture ; it has, as weshall see, a sort of remnant of provincial costume, and ithas the handsomest population in the Lowlands. Robert Louis Stevenson. \^The above is one of its author* s early * Essays of theRoad.^* Why left unfinished I cannot remem
The Chap-book; semi-monthly . yone precipitatelyissuing from the cottage must run his chance of a brokenhead. So far as I am aware, it is peculiar to the littlecorner of country about Girvan. And that corner isnoticeable for more reasons : it is certainly one of themost characteristic districts in Scotland. It has thismovable porch by way of architecture ; it has, as weshall see, a sort of remnant of provincial costume, and ithas the handsomest population in the Lowlands. Robert Louis Stevenson. \^The above is one of its author* s early * Essays of theRoad.^* Why left unfinished I cannot remember or guessyfor it seems to me one of the most pleasing and characteristicof its class. It records the first part of a walking tour ofsome seventy milesy undertaken by Stevenson for health*ssake (^and with very good effects), between the 8th and thelyth of January, iSyd. Sidney Colvin.] ^^I ^I ^Z ^aJ^^ <^? ^<^b <^(p ^P 4^ «^ ?4l> ^^ 48J> <^ a&dl. -=)? , ^ 4«>^ , nVli fa#i Afli oU ANNA VERNON DORSEY 121 THE DEAD OAK THE November day was drawing to a close. Theshadows were deepening in the pine forest thatlay on one side of the sandy road. On theother side, the corn stalks stood in level rows against theyellow of the sunset. My horse limped painfully, for hehad cast a shoe several hours since, and my hurried ridethrough a thinly inhabited part of lower Maryland, withwhich I was unfamiliar, had so far brought me near noblacksmiths shop. Great, then, was my relief, on passingthe wood, to find a three-cross roads, a small house witha shed from which rang the measured stroke of the anvil,while the square of the door was ruddy with the forgefire. After calling loudly and waiting ih vain for a reply, Idismounted. Just then the blacksmith came to the door,a big, low-browed, long-haired fellow, of few examining my horses feet, he announced that itwould be necessary to replace not only the missing shoe,but
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