In the footsteps of Borrow & Fitzgerald . es andwonderful stairs of transparent , with a laugh, it toppled them all downlike a house of cards. Now it made suchambitious affairs as maps, Europe first ofall, and before it was quite complete itknocked off a piece there and snatched awaya piece here and, rearranging them like apuzzle, had turned it into Asia ; then in astrange caprice it sketched the face of a man,with enormous nose and a beard that trailedaway and was lost in the suns bosom ; thensome weird animal such as mankind neverdreamed of, and turned it with a stroke ortwo into
In the footsteps of Borrow & Fitzgerald . es andwonderful stairs of transparent , with a laugh, it toppled them all downlike a house of cards. Now it made suchambitious affairs as maps, Europe first ofall, and before it was quite complete itknocked off a piece there and snatched awaya piece here and, rearranging them like apuzzle, had turned it into Asia ; then in astrange caprice it sketched the face of a man,with enormous nose and a beard that trailedaway and was lost in the suns bosom ; thensome weird animal such as mankind neverdreamed of, and turned it with a stroke ortwo into the islands of the blest, theHesperides, with trees of life and fruitsof gold. The sun has all but gone as I ride outof Geldeston, and soon the darkness will 202 BORROW AND FITZGERALD fall. I do not somehow appreciate the ideaof riding along those narrow lanes after darkwith the Hell-hound, the phantom Bigodscoach, and the other Geldeston ghosts freshin my mind, so I race with the waning lightand soon enter the quaint streets of CHAPTER X At Beccles I spent a glorious week. Whatan old-world town it is, with its narrowstreets, old houses, and quaint , the joy of those days on the Waveney,in the most delightful of boats, which maybe hired here for next to nothing ! Few lazyjoys can equal boating on the VVaveney,fishing when disposed, running the boat intothe reeds and water-flowers, and watchingthe wherries sailing as if upon the dry land,for the many curves of the river give onethat impression. It was whilst on this riverthat Crabbe came near to losing his life ;for the boat in which he was taking hisbeloved Sarah Elmy upset on the VVaveney,and the poet was rescued just as he wasgoing down for the third time. I took a run to Bungay, which is evenmore old-world than Beccles : Bungay, too,has its associations with Crabbe, for hereit was that his parents sent him to a board-ing-school. The first night that he spent at this school. 204 IN THE FOOTSTEPS he sa
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