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fish ; but we were on the moor, whose fascination 

 has always held me true to my first love of Nature. 

 It was here, on her broad bosom, that I often breathed 

 my boyish troubles with a perfect faith that she would 

 understand. She was to me a second mother, whose 

 arms stretched from everywhere for me. She was 

 in the hills and in the dales and wafted back to me 

 gentle, soothing breezes, until I have laid me down 

 and slept with a vow upon my lips that I would try 

 to be the little man my mother wished. 



It was thus we spent our first three weeks of 

 married life, each day of which struck a blow to 

 rivet the bonds the Church had bound us in. That 

 youthful joyous time remained with us a sweet, 

 and sometimes a laugh-provoking, memory to be 

 marshalled out to scare away cares and troubles, 

 and from it I chose to write the guidance asked 

 for by my son. 



