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Book excerpts: The Lake District, An Anthology compiled by Norman Nicholson

The Lake District An anthology compiled by Norman Nicholson. Penguin Books. 1977.   This delightful composition of prose, poetry and essays, some of them in the Cumbrian dialect,  contains such nuggets  as the ones reproduced below.  Gentleman in a hurry It was customary, I am told, to dash by them (i.e. the Lakes) with an…

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