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A Walk from London to John O’Groat’s

CHAPTER VI
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To give every one of their thousands "a local habitation and a name" of striking distinctness, has required an ingenuity which has produced many interesting feats of house- building and nomenclature.

Both these departments of genius figure largely in the poetry and classics of the institution, with which the reading million of America have been familiar from youth up.
And when any of them come to travel in England, it will greatly enhance their enjoyment to find that the pictures they have admired and the descriptions they have read of the famous country inn have been true to the very life and letter.

All its salient features they recognise at once, and are ready to exclaim, "How natural!" meaning by that, how true is the original to the picture which they have seen so frequently.

If they go far enough, they will find the very original of every one of the hundred pictures they have seen, painted by pen or pencil.

They will find that all of them have been true copies from nature.


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