advantage of Owd Skedlock's convoy down the broken paths, to the high
road in the valley. There we parted; and I had a fine starlight walk to
"Th' Top o' th' Hoof," on that breezy October night.

After a quiet supper in "Owd Bob's" little parlour, I took a walk
round about the quaint farmstead, and through the grove upon the brow of
the hill. The full moon had risen in the cloudless sky; and the view of
the valley as I saw it from "Grant's Tower" that night, was a thing to
be remembered with delight for a man's lifetime.