Village Annals, Containing Austerus and Humanus (Illustrated)

IT was in that season of the year when nature wears an universal gloom, and the pinching frost arrests the running stream in its course, and gives a[6] massy solidity to the lake that lately curled with every breeze, that Sir Filmer Hopewell, having lost his road in the Dale of Tiviot, was met by two youths that swiftly skimmed the surface of the slippery brook, and sought an antidote against the inclement cold in the wholesome though dangerous exercise of skaiting. Of these hale and ruddy ...