Posted by Ed Kiser on October 17, 2008 at 01:34:51 user Kisered.
In Reply to: Re: Where is Bigland? posted by John Wilson on October 16, 2008 at 13:23:40:
John - To back up your concise summary, here are the passages:
---------- SACH13.TXT
"They'll tell him right enough," said Young Billy. "You tell
them to tell their Uncle Jim that Young Billy, that's me, sent
him word to put a good padlock on that houseboat of his if he
leaves it at nights. Down in the pub at Bigland yonder there was
a deal too much talk going about that houseboat and what he has
in it. Nobody in these parts would touch it, but when talk gets
going as far as Bigland, you never know who hears it. There's
more than plenty of wild young lads that are up to anything
without thinking twice.
---------- SACH26.TXT
"I wonder what made the Billies give you that message for
me?" said Captain Flint.
"They said they'd heard something at Bigland," said John.
"That's away beyond the foot of the lake," said Captain Flint.
---------- SDCH30.TXT
"Nay," said Young Billy. "It's like this. There's a hound-trail
over Bigland way today, and a bit of a do, like, after it, and
my old dad heard that old Jim Postlethwaite was going to be
there, and thinking he'd be oldest of the lot. Now Jim Postle-
thwaite's nobbut eighty-nine and my dad's seen ninety-four
this last back-end. 'I'm not going to be beat by a young chap like
that,' says my dad, and he was off to Bigland this morning,
walking over the fell, and he'll be stopping there the night with
a young nephew of mine that has a mort of great-grandchildren
to show him."
---------- SDCH31.TXT
And as the old charcoal-burner chopped away at his sticks, he
kept stopping from time to time and talking. He talked of what
his old dad might be seeing at Bigland besides the hound trail.
---------- SDCH9.TXT
"Sixty years. Sixty-five," said old Mr. Swainson. "It'll be
nearer seventy since I brought her up here from the church down
by Bigland, and she sat her down in that chair for the first time."
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