The wanderings of a pen and pencil . Cavern at Dudley. DUDLEY. 21 horizon, you repose the sight upon that fairy chink between earth and thesky, planted here with mountain forms in giant-like procession —the cum-brous Wrekin, the wide-footed Clee, the Abberley, the misty MalvernHills, and Clent, made musical with the songs of Shenstones lyre, and theplaintive lute of widowed Littleton. Nearer to Dudley are several abruptmounds and cleft ridges of upland, crowned with the bright yellow ver-dure of the luxuriant juvenile year. These are igneous rocks, akin to theRowley, to the Bentley Pouck, and
The wanderings of a pen and pencil . Cavern at Dudley. DUDLEY. 21 horizon, you repose the sight upon that fairy chink between earth and thesky, planted here with mountain forms in giant-like procession —the cum-brous Wrekin, the wide-footed Clee, the Abberley, the misty MalvernHills, and Clent, made musical with the songs of Shenstones lyre, and theplaintive lute of widowed Littleton. Nearer to Dudley are several abruptmounds and cleft ridges of upland, crowned with the bright yellow ver-dure of the luxuriant juvenile year. These are igneous rocks, akin to theRowley, to the Bentley Pouck, and others. Thus we wandered, givingto the eye a festival of forms that were no delusion, conversing of manythemes that rang the chimes of humanity and love in our two human souls,. and brightening memory with visions of home, untarnished by a word or anemotion in the hour of absence, and its fanciful changes, weaning the heartfrom reason to sensuality and oblivion. By the way (for we would not fail in gratitude to any man), commend usever to Mr. George Jenkins, of the White Lion Inn at Sedgley, at whosesuperior shelter a gentleman will never be at a loss for an equal, or a poor man 22 WANDKRINGS OF A PKN AND PEN( IL. for a considerate friend. His good name had been familiar to us for manyyears, and in the period of our peregrination we tested the wholesome traditionof his kindness and amiability. If any man knows how to give a hearty oldEnglish welcome, here is the professor of old English hospitality, and we willcross sticks with the biggest loon that ever staggered under sixteen stone Do • • weight of egotism, should he avow to the contrary. This is not mere J. is the idol of the working men in the village, and when times are outof joint, and
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