[A Walk from London to John O’Groat’s by Elihu Burritt]@TWC D-Link bookA Walk from London to John O’Groat’s CHAPTER XV 13/35
There hung a sword he wielded in the fiery rifts of battle.
There was Fairfax's sword hanging by its side; and his famous war-drum lay beneath.
Its leather lungs, that once shouted the charge, were now still and frowsy, with no martial speech left in them. Mr.Fawkes owns about 15,000 acres of land, including most of the valley of Otley, and extending back almost to Harrogate.
He farms about 450 acres, but grows no wheat.
Indeed, I did not see a field of it in a circle of five miles' diameter. I reached Harrogate in the dusk of the evening, and found the town alive with people mostly in the streets.
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