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clean little room within ; and I dare say, to day 

 as well as yesterday, our exercise with a pretty 

 long fast will have gotten us an appetite and 

 relish for our dinner ; so make your necessary 

 change as speedily as possible: the damsel 

 there will show you your room, which you will 

 find more comfortable than the ruder one at 

 Seathwaite. 



AMICUS. Good morning ! How fortunate we 

 are in our weather ; and in such weather with 

 the bursting spring, how beautiful is Donner- 

 dale, the Vale of the Duddon ! 



PISCATOK. And how beautiful is the Duddon 

 itself ! now an ample stream, yet with the same 

 untamed mountain character, oftener dashing 

 amongst rocks than resting in deep pools. 

 From the fell, we shall have to follow it to-day 

 in our angling, into the lowland meadows, and 

 from thence to the still lower sands that 

 plain of sand, where wandering, lingering, it 

 ends its course in the sea ; and let us join in 

 the Poet's wish, as expressed in the last of his 

 Duddon sonnets, and in the " After-thought," 



