“‘When first I came to merry Carlisle.’”
“And ‘the girl I left behind me,’” said Tommy Toby to Ernest, softly.
The Miss saw the point of the joke, and, as it was politely spoken, received the implied compliment with becoming modesty and good-humor, saying that she should also remember very pleasantly the visit of the Zigzag Club to her father’s house.
CHAPTER VIII.
A CLOUDLESS DAY.
Sherwood Forest.—Nottingham.—Story of the Wise Men of Gotham.
HAVE stood by the graves of Wordsworth and Coleridge. The trees were green and cool; the Rotha rippled beside the poets’ resting-place, and Helvellyn and Catchedicam in the distance rose in the calm, bright air. Beautiful indeed are these mountains in midsummer. The whole Lake region is beautiful—beautiful!”
Such was the brief entry Wyllys Wynn made in the journal in his guide-book, on returning from the English Lakes.
“There is a touching story associated with Helvellyn,” said Wyllys to Master Lewis, as the boys were returning from the Lakes, “that Scott has told in very musical verse. It is of a little dog that watched beside the dead body of his master for several months, and was found guarding the bones. Will you not relate it to us?”