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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sible not to take them for genuine trees. The trunks of the ivy-vines must be more than a foot in circumference, and one feels they have stolen the life that belonged to the pines. The dead branches of one of the pines stick out horizontally through the ivy-boughs. The other shows nothing but the ivy, and in shape a good deal resembles a poplar. When the pine trunks shall have quite crumbled away, the ivy - stems will doubtless have gained sufficient strength to sustain themselves independently. July 19th. ? Yesterday S went down the lake in the steamboat to take U, baby, and nurse to Newby Bridge, while the three rest of us should make a tour through the lake region. After mamma's departure, and when I had finished some letters, J and I set out on a walk, which finally brought us to Bowness, through much delightful shade of woods, and past beautiful rivulets or brooklets, and up and down many hills. This chief harbor of the lakes seemed alive and bustling with tourists, it being a sunny and pleasant day, so that they were all abroad, like summer insects. The town is a confused and irregular little place, of very uneven surface. There is an old church in it, and two or three large hotels. We stayed there perhaps half an hour, and then went to the pier, where shortly a steamer arrived, with music sounding, ? on the deck of which, with her back to us, sat a lady in a gray travelling-dress. J cried out, Mamma mamma to which the lady deigned no notice, but, he repeating it, she turned round, and was as much surprised, no doubt, to see her husband and son, as if this little lake had been the great ocean, and we meeting each other from opposite shores of it.We soon steamed back to Lowwood, and took a car thence for Rydal and Grasmere, after a cold luncheon. At B...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217658331 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217658334 |
| Weight | 1.72 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.19 In |
| List Price | $26.53 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 536 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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