Beggars on horseback; a riding tour in North Wales (1895) (14782283982)

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Title: Beggars on horseback; a riding tour in North Wales
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ross, Martin, 1862-1915 Somerville, E. . (Edith none), 1858-1949
Subjects: Wales, North -- Description and travel
Publisher: Edinburgh, London : W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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rmaid — thrust out his tongue, D so BEGGARS ON HORSEBACK. apparently at us. What had he to do with thechambermaid, and why did he object to us?These things were hid from us. Let no one ask from these historians the factsabout the Behemoth skull and the Leviathanbackbone which are disposed in the timberedarch above the porch-door of the church. Thereare theories and there are legends, all equallyimprobable, so we were informed by the grey-haired vicar, with a classic and tolerant wearinesswhich may well have been caused by the heat,or the Suspensory Bill, or the fact that MissOFlannigan was perhaps the five thousandthtourist by whom he had been asked the samequestion. That night the order went forth for a half-pastsix oclock breakfast. If the heat was tropical,so should be our manner of life, and the rideover the mountains to Dolgelly should be in thedewy cool of the morning. Nothing could bemore idyllic. This quality, however, was not soprominent next morning, when at 6.15 A.M. Miss
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^RTiss OFlannigaiis hair came do7vn. BEGGARS ON HORSEBACK. 53 OFlannigan ranged forth through the sleepinghouse to call the chambermaid, or when at 7.15the underdone poached eggs and the chill phantomof yesterdays coffee were achieved by the cookin some favourable interval of her toilet. Nor,by the time that we had arranged ourselves uponthe Tommies, was the coolness so striking as wecould have wished, except in the representativeof the landladies, with whom we had had occasionto discuss the bill. This matter caused an awk-wardness in our usually effective farewells — somuch so that we felt constrained to start at fullgallop, and to keep up the pace till we believedourselves out of sight of the group at the hoteldoor. The Tommies shied as though before thathour they had never looked on the things ofearth, and the firry flank of the Moel Dinas hadnot intervened when Miss OFlannigans hair camedown and the strap of my hold-all had burst.A more determined effort than usual on Tommyspart