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house hard by ; they are within a few minutes' 

 walk. 



AMICUS. The house is nowise remarkable, a 

 neat substantial little cottage. 



PISCATOK. The first time I was here, it was 

 occupied by Eobert Walker's successor, the Eev. 

 Mr. Tyson, since deceased, who had been seven 

 years Eobert Walker's curate and was then well 

 advanced in years, a decent, respectable man 

 and respectably dressed in black, even to black 

 worsted stockings, but in no manner a re- 

 markable character. Would that I had seen 

 Eobert Walker himself ! Here is a description 

 of him by one who did see him, and in his 

 ordinary homely dress. " I found him (says the 

 writer, and it was 1754), sitting at the head 

 of a long square table, such as is commonly 

 used in this country by the lower class of 

 people, dressed in a coarse blue frock, trimmed 

 with black horn buttons, a checked shirt, a 

 leathern strap about his neck for a stock, a 

 coarse apron and a pair of great wooden soled 

 shoes plated with iron to preserve them (what 

 we call clogs in these parts), with a child upon 

 his knee eating his breakfast." The writer 

 adds, " His wife and the remainder of his 



