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Updated: May 4, 2025
Such was the light of this Christmas afternoon, and both the girls had felt the effects of it before they reached the big stone on Swindale Fell, from which they intended to look down upon the loveliness of Hawes Water.
She could, indeed, walk, and the walk would not be so long as that she had taken with Alice to Swindale fell; but walking to an inn on a high road, is not the same thing as walking to a point on a hill side over a lake.
That was in September, but we had dined early. If we go as far as Swindale we shall have it very dark coming home to-day; but I don't mind that through the Beacon Wood, because I know my way so well. You won't be afraid of half an hour's dark?" "Oh, no," said Alice. "Yes; I do remember that day. Well; it's all for the best, I suppose. And now I must read you my aunt's letter."
Had she been dirty, draggled, and wet through on Swindale fell, it would have simply been matter for mirth; but her brother she knew would not have liked to see her enter the Lowther Arms at Shap in such a condition. It, therefore, became necessary that she should ask her grandfather to lend her the jaunting car. "Where do you want to go?" he asked sharply.
Gentlemen won't stand that kind of thing for ever." The two girls took a slice of cake each in her hand, and started on their walk. "We shan't be able to get to the lake," said Kate. "No," said Alice; "but we can go as far as the big stone on Swindale Fell, where we can sit down and see it." "Do you remember the last time we sat there?" said Kate.
But you will when you get up to the bank there. That's Scaw Fell on the left; the round distant top. I can distinguish it, though I doubt whether you can." Then they went on again, and were soon at the bank from whence the sharp top of the mountain which Alice had named was visible. "And now we are on Swindale, and in five minutes we shall get to the stone."
It is thus that a lake should be seen, and it was thus that Hawes Water was seen by them from the flat stone on the side of Swindale Fell. The basin of the lake has formed itself into the shape of the figure of 3, and the top section of the figure lies embosomed among the very wildest of the Westmoreland mountains.
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