DOVE DALE REVISITED 14! 



bridge. This is called HANSON TOOT ; it is 

 the mountain down which, on their way from 

 Ashbourne to Beresford, came " Piscator " and 

 "Viator": 



" Pise. You will like it worse presently when 

 you come to the brow of the Hill, and now we 

 are there, what think you ? 



" Viat. What do I think? Why I think it is 

 the strangest place that ever sure Men, and 

 Horses went down, and that (if there be any 

 safety at all) the safest way is to alight. 



"Pise. I think so too for you, who are 

 mounted upon a Beast not acquainted with 

 these slippery stones. ... If you please, my 

 Man shall lead your Horse. 



" Viat. Marry, Sir, and I thank you too, for 

 I am afraid I shall have enough to do to look 

 to my self; and with my Horse in my hand 

 should be in a double fear, both of breaking my 

 neck, and my Horse's falling on me, for it is as 

 steep as a penthouse. 



" Pise. To look down from hence it appears 

 so, I confess, but the path winds and turns, and 

 will not be found so troublesom. 



" Viat. Would I were well down, though ! 

 Hoist thee ! there's one fair slip ! these stones 

 are so slippery I cannot stand ! Yet again ! 

 I think I may best lay my heeles in my neck 



