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Updated: October 2, 2025
North-country farming in England was the life to which he had looked forward; vigorous sports and hard work in the keen air of the Cumberland fells had knit his frame and hardened his muscles; and his parents, as they noticed with pride their boy's sturdy limbs, and listened in wonder to the bits of learning he brought home from school, had looked forward half-unconsciously to the days when he in his turn would be master of the farm which Rattrays had held for generations.
He then returned to England, and paid his respects to his cousin and the Scotch Mrs. Vandaleur. She congratulated herself, I have heard, that her only child, a daughter, was from home when this visit was paid. Mrs. Janet Vandaleur was a high-minded, hard-headed, north-country woman.
"You know we North-country folk all have our traditions and our ghosts; and what more likely than that the spirit of a dead man or a man gone to other worlds should watch over the realisation of his greatest work on earth? Why shouldn't we believe that, we who are going away from this world to other ones?" "Why not?" interrupted Zaidie, "why, of course we will.
'To the practised eye the men to-day showed signs of accepting it with cordiality, but the north-country man is before all things cautious, and I dare say a stranger would have thought them cool and suspicious. We meet again next week. 'I must explain the thing to Lucy it is her right. She may resent it vehemently, as she did my refusal, in the autumn, to take advantage of that London opening.
Runciman appeared to me a most earnest and able thinker, full of North-country grit, and overflowing with energy. His later literary work is well known to the world. He contributed to the St. James's Gazette an admirable series of seafaring sketches, afterwards reprinted as "The Romance of the North Coast."
As he spoke, half-a-dozen men in a north-country tartan got on the top of our low rear wall that we thought impregnable on the lip of the hill, and came on us with a most ferocious uproar. What followed in that hearthstone fight so hot and brisk took so short a space of time, and happened in so confused and terrible a moment, that all but my personal feeling escapes me.
In the ordinary course of events these men would not be out for sixty days yet, but Silver Jack and Big Dan perfectly well knew that it only needed the suggestion, the temptation, to arouse the spirit of restlessness. That a taste or so of whiskey will shiver the patience of men oppressed by long monotony is as A B C to the north-country saloon-keeper.
And so indeed he did till the hunting season began; and then he brought them over to Putnam's. The Duke's north-country stud-groom, who was in The Beehive at Folkington, as they came along the road from Lewes, ran out of the bar to have a look at them. "Ma wud!" he whistled. "Champion!" And Mike Rigg was right.
"In like manner I trace the origin of the ballad, most particularly the English ballad, to Prudentius, a contemporary of Claudian." "You don't mean to say that you trace back our north-country ballads to, what do you call him?" "Prudentius. I show that there is much in his hymns that recalls the English ballads." "In his hymns?" "Yes; in the poems that come under such denomination.
Tully was the most common surname of all, and the great number of people who bore it were mostly black-eyed and dark-haired, quite unlike our fair and blue-eyed north-country folk.
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