Chapter 12 HOMELY TRAGEDY.

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In our summer fishings, one of the spots to which we used to resort was a quaint cottage in the vale of Duddon-the Duddon that Wordsworth has immortalised in his series of sonnets. The cottage stood hard by the stream, and in it lived a widow woman, the daughter of a hill "statesman." During trout-time the house was embowered in greenery. Del