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Gentleman's Magazine 1902 part 2 p.423
close, and the body slowly recovered consciousness and seemingly appreciation of its position. Tortured by thirst and hunger, with crushed shoulder and side, Jem Bate rose to survey, with all his old defiance, the shattered cliff above. As he began to drag himself up the rough passage, his nerve steadied, but just as he seemed to reach safety, a few loose fragments hurtled down, and struck him to the ground. The shock was fearful, but the hardihood of a thousand scrambles enabled him to survive it. For an hour he lay on the shelving broken rock, while a wanderer who had seen the man in the ascent climbed the rugged gable of High Street and walked along the summit to the top of the gully. This man had a keen interest in scrambling among uncoventional climbs, and therefore essayed a descent to meet the other. But fifty - one hundred feet down he carefully climbed, at every moment his position becoming more dangerous, signalling again and again without hearing any response. Then, as he traversed a rough, projecting rock, he came upon the still breathing body of Jem Bate. Tenderly, yet with consummate skill and strength, he lifted it and bore it up the terrible steep. How he managed it in safety none can tell, but the shepherd who hastened from Lingmell at the sound of the danger-cry of his kind found the two lying together so still that he thought both were dead. In an hour assistance was at hand, and the cragsman and his rescuer were being carried towards Mardale. |
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Legend of the Fells
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III. - A LEGEND OF THE FELLS.
IN the days of King Stephen, Church, Crown, and Barons were struggling in a quagmire of petty strife and intrigue, but the attendant horrors were only noted in the vale of Kent by the extraordinary number of guests of high rank - barons whose little armies had been destroyed, whose castles had been sacked, and who could not return to their estates for fear of their lives - who came and went at Kendal Castle. The Baron had too many troubles in his own domain to think of engaging in the struggles raging throughout the country. Westmorland was not yet fully subjugated by the Normans, and bands of outlawed Saxons - men whose fathers had fallen on the ridge at Senlac or by the Isle of Ely, bequeathing deathless hatred of the foe to their sons, or men whose worst passions had been excited by the treatment received from their conquerors - his by day in caves or rude huts far away among the mountains where the Norman infantry could not reach, and at |
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