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and good man's record in a word : " He was a 

 simple, zealous and laborious pastor. The income 

 of his living when he took it was 5, and, though 

 afterwards increased, at no time exceeded 50." 

 He was literally " passing rich on 4.0 a year " or 

 less, brought up eight children, and died worth 

 2,000. Close to the church is the parsonage, a 

 small cottage covered with climbing roses, in which 

 Walker lived. His employments were multifarious : 

 he was the parish priest, schoolmaster, and doctor 

 of the district ; he made wills and prepared and 

 engrossed deeds ; was the amanuensis of his un- 

 educated parishioners, sold home-brewed beer, 

 cultivated his glebe with his own hands, spun wool, 

 made his own clothing, and worked for wages at 

 haymaking and sheep-shearing. The little chapel 

 is scarcely larger than a labourer's cottage. Walker's 

 pew is shown, lined with cloth woven by himself. 



Seathwaite tarn contains both trout and char, and 

 is well worth the attention of the angler who may 

 find himself in this out-of-the-way valley. The 

 tarn is 1210 feet above sea level. On the tarn is 

 an islet upon which a single pair of herring-gulls 

 breed annually. 



Referring to Seathwaite Tarn, Mr. Arthur 

 Severn thinks it much superior to Gates Water. 

 This he attributes to the fact of there being plenty 

 of food in the shape of flies, and to the tarn contain- 

 ing a good deal of vegetation in contradistinction 

 to Gates Water, which has a rocky bottom. It 

 swarms with trout, and upon an unlikely day Mr. 

 Severn and his brother had 28 well-conditioned 

 trout running four or five to the pound, the largest 

 being 7 ozs. Upon one occasion, another angler of 

 my acquaintance had 30 trout The fish are too 



