Doubtless Wordsworth took his son to the cottage at Colthouse, where Anne Tyson died, as the earlier abode in Hawkshead village is well known, and its site is indisputable .-- Ed.] [Footnote I: Compare book i.ll.

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148 .-- Ed.] [Footnote K: There is no trace and no tradition at Hawkshead of the "stone table under the dark pine," For a curious parallel to this 'sunny seat Round the stone table under the dark pine,' I am indebted to Dr.Cradock.He points out that in the prologue to 'Peter Bell', vol.ii p.9, we have the lines, 'To the stone-table in my garden, Loved haunt of many a summer hour,' Ed.] [Footnote L: There can be little doubt as to the identity of "the famous brook" "within our garden" boxed, which gives the name of Flag Street to one of the alleys of Hawkshead.
"Persons have visited the cottage," wrote Dr.Cradock, "without discovering it; and yet it is not forty yards distant, and is still exactly as described.

On the opposite side of the lane leading to the cottage, and a few steps above it, is a narrow passage through some new stone buildings.

On emerging from this, you meet a small garden, the farther side of which is bounded by the brook, confined on both sides by larger flags, and also covered by flags of the same Coniston formation, through the interstices of which you may see and hear the stream running freely.