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at some gentleman farmer's house not far from 

 the river, so that he might have an early start 

 next day. The late Mr. Fryer of Fleets, near 

 Cover Bridge, told me that on one occasion when 

 spending the night there he would not have any 

 change of clothing although wet up to the waist. 

 During the night the maid had dried his shoes. 

 Early next morning his first enquiry was for a 

 water trough. Being told of one, he walked out 

 in his stockings and at once put his shoes into it, 

 adding, " How could I put on such nasty hard 

 things, besides, they would be quite wet in less 

 than five minutes after getting to the river side." 

 If he had an attack of lumbago, which was very 

 rare, he would go down to the river and wade up 

 and down iip to his middle for about twenty 

 nainutes. This, he said, always did him good. 

 Others tried it but it nearly finished them. I 

 recollect when he was eighty-two years of age, a 

 relative and I got thoroughly wet through whilst 

 trout fishing, and on going up to Thornton for a 

 change, I saw my father sitting quite comfortably 

 in his armchair with quite a little pool of water 



