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"A stranger," says Waterton, "would never believe the sound to be the voice of a bird. He would say it was the last groan of a midnight murdered victim, or the cry of Niobe for her children before she was turned into stone.
Two days after this I entered Waterton. There was another road, said to be a very pleasant one, which lay to the westward, and which would have taken me to Walford through a country new to me, but I wished to make no further explorations in Cathay, and if one journeys back upon a road by which he came he will find the scenery very different.
Sharpe excepted, which last purposeth to returne by the next ships into England to build howses at a place, a mile east from Waterton neere Charles river, the next Springe, and to winter there the next yeare, that soe by our examples and by removeinge the ordinance and munition thether, all who were able, might be drawne thether, and such as shall come to vs hereafter to their advantage bee compelled soe to doe; and soe if God would, a fortifyed Toune might there grow vpp, the place fitting reasonably well thereto....
The Squire built a wall nine feet high all round his park, and he used laughingly to say that he paid for it with the cost of the wine which he did not drink after dinner. A more delightful home for a naturalist could not have been. No shot was ever fired within the park wall, and every year more birds came. Waterton used often to quote the lines:—
After leaving college Waterton stayed at home with his father, and enjoyed fox-hunting for a while.
"Oh, there is no danger of their thinking anything of that sort," I said. "Don't you suppose they will attribute my good spirits to the fact that the man who took my bicycle to Waterton brought back my big valise, so that I am enabled to look like a gentleman in the parlor?
The succeeding shocks became weaker and weaker, till at last we felt no more of them.” A courageous sea-captain at last sailed away in safety, though chased by the Spanish brigs of war, and after thirty days at sea Waterton landed in England. Another uncle had estates in Demerara, and in the autumn Waterton sailed thither from Portsmouth.
This last sentence is in exactly the same vein of humour as the comment, in the review of Waterton's Travels, on the snake that bit itself. "Mr. Waterton, though much given to sentiment, made a Labairi snake bite itself, but no bad consequences ensued nor would any bad consequences ensue, if a court-martial was to order a sinful soldier to give himself a thousand lashes.
In answer to her question, he said "No, no; nothing amiss. Only Mr. Fludyer would have me go to the Hall to see his new horses; and there I found" "Sara!" interrupted the mother. "Well, perhaps she thought it would be a pleasant change from the dulness of Waterton during your absence; so never mind." He did mind. He restlessly paced the room, angry with his mother, himself with the whole world.
I gazed at her mystified, and she said, "Don't you know that Miss Willoughby is going in the same train with you?" "What!" I exclaimed, far too forcibly. "Yes. Her visit ends to-day. She lives in Waterton. But why should that affect you so wonderfully? I am sure you cannot object to an hour in the train with Amy Willoughby. She may talk a good deal, but you must admit that she talks well."
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