In their present position, the travellers are (to speak geographically) bounded towards the east by a long road winding8 down the side of a rocky hill; towards the west, by the broad half-dry channel of a tidal river; towards the north, by trees, hills, and upland valleys; and towards the south, by an old bridge and some houses near it, with lights in their windows faintly reflected in shallow water. In plainer words, the southern boundary of the prospect9 around them represents a place called Looe — a fishing-town on the south coast of Cornwall, which is their destination for the night.
They had, by this time, accomplished their initiation10 into the process of walking under a knapsack, with the most complete and encouraging success. You, who in these days of vehement11 bustle12, business, and competition, can still find time to travel for pleasure alone — you, who have yet to become emancipated13 from the thraldom14 of railways, carriages, and saddle-horses — patronize, I exhort15 you, that first and oldest-established of all conveyances16, your own legs! Think on your tender partings nipped in the bud by the railway bell; think of crabbed17 cross-roads, and broken carriage-springs; think of luggage confided18 to extortionate porters, of horses casting shoes and catching19 colds, of cramped20 legs and numbed21 feet, of vain longings22 to get down for a moment here, and to delay for a pleasant half hour there — think of all these manifold hardships of riding at your ease; and the next time you leave home, strap23 your luggage on your shoulders, take your stick in your hand, set forth24 delivered from a perfect paraphernalia25 of incumbrances, to go where you will, how you will — the free citizen of the whole travelling world! Thus independent, what may you not accomplish? — what pleasure is there that you cannot enjoy? Are you an artist? — you can stop to sketch26 every point of view that strikes your eye. Are you a philanthropist? — you can go into every cottage and talk to every human being you pass. Are you a botanist27, or geologist28? — you may pick up leaves and chip rocks wherever you please, the live-long day. Are you a valetudinarian29? — you may physic yourself by Nature’s own simple prescription30, walking in fresh air. Are you dilatory31 and irresolute32? — you may dawdle33 to your heart’s content; you may change all your plans a dozen times in a dozen hours; you may tell “Boots” at the inn to call you at six o’clock, may fall asleep again (ecstatic sensation!) five minutes after he has knocked at the door, and may get up two hours later, to pursue your journey, with perfect impunity34 and satisfaction. For, to you, what is a time-table but waste-paper? — and a “booked place” but a relic35 of the dark ages? You dread36, perhaps, blisters37 on your feet — sponge your feet with cold vinegar and water, change your socks every ten miles, and show me blisters after that, if you can! You strap on your knapsack for the first time, and five minutes afterwards feel an aching pain in the muscles at the back of your neck — walk on, and the aching will walk off! How do we overcome our first painful cuticular38 reminiscences of first getting on horseback? — by riding again. Apply the same rule to carrying the knapsack, and be assured of the same successful result. Again I say it, therefore — walk, and be merry; walk, and be healthy; walk, and be your own master! — walk, to enjoy, to observe, to improve, as no riders can! — walk, and you are the best peripatetic39 impersonation of holiday enjoyment40 that is to be met with on the surface of this work-a-day world!
How much more could I not say in praise of travelling on our own neglected legs? But it is getting late; dark night-clouds are marching slowly over the sky, to the whistling music of the wind; we must leave our bank by the roadside, pass one end of the old bridge, walk along a narrow winding street, and enter our hospitable41 little inn, where we are welcomed by the kindest of landladies42, and waited on by the fairest of chambermaids. If Looe prove not to be a little sea-shore paradise tomorrow, then is there no virtue43 in the good omens44 of to-night.
The first point for which we made in the morning, was the old bridge; and a most picturesque3 and singular structure we found it to be. Its construction dates back as far as the beginning of the fifteenth century. It is three hundred and eighty-four feet long, and has fourteen arches, no two of which are on the same scale. The stout45 buttresses46 built between each arch, are hollowed at the top into curious triangular47 places of refuge for pedestrians48, the roughly paved roadway being just wide enough to allow the passage of one cart at a time. On some of these buttresses, towards the middle, once stood an oratory49, or chapel50, dedicated51 to St. Anne; but no vestiges52 of it now remain. The old bridge however, still rises sturdily enough on its ancient foundations; and, whatever the point from which its silver-grey stones and quaint53 arches of all shapes and sizes may be beheld54, forms no mean adjunct to the charming landscape around it.
Looe is known to have existed as a town in the reign55 of Edward I.; and it remains56 to this day one of the prettiest and most primitive57 places in England. The river divides it into East and West Looe; and the view from the bridge, looking towards the two little colonies of houses thus separated, is in some respects almost unique.
At each side of you rise high ranges of beautifully wooded hills; here and there a cottage peeps out among the trees, the winding path that leads to it being now lost to sight in the thick foliage58, now visible again as a thin serpentine59 line of soft grey. Midway on the slopes appear the gardens of Looe, built up the acclivity on stone terraces one above another; thus displaying the veritable garden architecture of the mountains of Palestine magically transplanted to the side of an English hill. Here, in this soft and genial60 atmosphere, the hydrangea is a common flower-bed ornament61, the fuchsia grows lofty and luxuriant in the poorest cottage garden, the myrtle flourishes close to the sea-shore, and the tender tamarisk is the wild plant of every farmer’s hedge. Looking lower down the hills yet, you see the houses of the town straggling out towards the sea along each bank of the river, in mazes62 of little narrow streets; curious old quays63 project over the water at different points; coast-trade vessels65 are being loaded and unloaded, built in one place and repaired in another, all within view; while the prospect of hills, harbour, and houses thus quaintly66 combined together, is beautifully closed by the English Channel, just visible as a small strip of blue water, pent in between the ridges67 of two promontories68 which stretch out on either side to the beach.
Such is Looe as beheld from a distance; and it loses none of its attractions when you look at it more closely. There is no such thing as a straight street in the place. No martinet69 of an architect has been here, to drill the old stone houses into regimental regularity70. Sometimes you go down steps into the ground floor, sometimes you mount an outside staircase to get to the bed-rooms. Never were such places devised for hide and seek since that exciting nursery pastime was first invented. No house has fewer than two doors leading into two different lanes; some have three, opening at once into a court, a street, and a wharf71, all situated72 at different points of the compass. The shops, too, have their diverting irregularities, as well as the town. Here you might call a man a Jack73 of all trades, as the best and truest compliment you could pay him — for here one shop combines in itself a drug-mongering, cheese-mongering, stationery74, grocery, and oil and Italian line of business; to say nothing of such cosmopolitan75 miscellanies as wrinkled apples, dusty nuts, cracked slate76 pencils and fly-blown mock jewellery. The moral good which you derive77, in the first pane78 of a window, from the contemplation of memoirs79 of murdered missionaries80 and serious tracts81 against intemperance82 and tight-lacing, you lose in the second, before such worldly temptations as gingerbread, shirt-studs, and fascinating white hats for Sunday wear, at two and ninepence apiece. Let no man rashly say he has seen all that British enterprise can do for the extension of British commerce, until he has carefully studied the shop-fronts of the tradesmen of Looe.
Then, when you have at last threaded your way successfully through the streets, and have got out on the beach, you see a pretty miniature bay, formed by the extremity83 of a green hill on the right, and by fine jagged slate-rocks on the left. Before this seaward quarter of the town is erected84 a strong bulwark85 of rough stones, to resist the incursion of high tides. Here, the idlers of the place assemble to lounge and gossip, to look out for any outward-bound ships that are to be seen in the Channel, and to criticise86 the appearance and glorify87 the capabilities88 of the little fleet of Looe fishing-boats, riding snugly90 at anchor before them at the entrance of the bay.
The inhabitants number some fourteen hundred; and are as good-humoured and unsophisticated a set of people as you will meet with anywhere. The Fisheries and the Coast Trade form their principal means of subsistence. The women take a very fair share of the hard work out of the men’s hands. You constantly see them carrying coals from the vessels to the quay64 in curious hand-barrows: they laugh, scream, and run in each other’s way incessantly91: but these little irregularities seem to assist, rather than impede93 them, in the prosecution94 of their tasks. As to the men, one absorbing interest appears to govern them all. The whole day long they are mending boats, painting boats, cleaning boats, rowing boats, or, standing95 with their hands in their pockets, looking at boats. The children seem to be children in size, and children in nothing else. They congregate96 together in sober little groups, and hold mysterious conversations, in a dialect which we cannot understand. If they ever do tumble down, soil their pinafores, throw stones, or make mud pies, they practise these juvenile97 vices98 in a midnight secrecy99 which no stranger’s eye can penetrate100.
In that second period of the dark ages, when there were High Tories and rotten boroughs102 in the land, Looe (containing at that time nothing like the number of inhabitants which it now possesses) sent Four Members to Parliament! The ceremony by which two of these members were elected, as it was described to me by a man who remembered witnessing it, must have been an impressive sight indeed to any foreigner interested in studying the representative system of this country. On the morning of the “Poll,” one division of the borough101 sent six electors, and another four, to record their imposing103 aggregate104 of votes in favour of any two smiling civil gentlemen, who came, properly recommended, to ask for them. This done, the ten electors walked quietly home in one direction, and the two members walked quietly off in another, to perform the fatiguing106 duty of representing their constituents’ interests in Imperial Parliament. The election was quite a snug89 little family affair, in these “good old times.” The ten gentlemen who voted, and the other two gentlemen who took their votes, just made up a comfortable compact dozen, all together!
But this state of things was too harmonious107 to last in such a world of discord108 as ours. The day of innovation came: turbulent Whigs and Radicals109 laid uncivil hands on the Looe polling-booth, and politically annihilated110 the pleasant party of twelve. Since that disastrous112 period the town has sent no members to Parliament at all; and very little, indeed, do the townspeople appear to care about so serious a deprivation113. In case the reader should be disposed to attribute this indifference114 to municipal privileges to the supineness rather than the philosophy of the inhabitants, I think it necessary to establish their just claims to be considered as possessing public spirit, prompt decision, and wise fertility of resource in cases of emergency, by relating in this place the true story of how the people of Looe got rid of the rats.
About a mile out at sea, to the southward of the town, rises a green triangular shaped eminence115, called Looe Island. Here, many years ago, a ship was wrecked116. Not only were the sailors saved, but several free passengers of the rat species, who had got on board, nobody knew how, where, or when, were also preserved by their own strenuous118 exertions119, and wisely took up permanent quarters for the future on the terra firma of Looe Island. In process of time, and in obedience120 to the laws of nature, these rats increased and multiplied exceedingly; and, being confined all round within certain limits by the sea, soon became a palpable and dangerous nuisance. Destruction was threatened to the agricultural produce of all the small patches of cultivated land on the island — it seemed doubtful whether any man who ventured there by himself, might not share the fate of Bishop121 Hatto, and be devoured122 by rats. Under these pressing circumstances, the people of Looe determined123 to make one united and vehement effort to extirpate124 the whole colony of invaders125. Ordinary means of destruction had been tried already, and without effect. It was said that rats left for dead on the ground had mysteriously revived faster than they could be picked up and skinned, or flung into the sea. Rats desperately126 wounded had got away into their holes, and become convalescent, and increased and multiplied again more productively than ever. The great problem was, not how to kill the rats, but how to annihilate111 them so effectually as to place the reappearance even of one of them altogether out of the question. This was the problem, and it was solved in the following manner:—
All the available inhabitants of the town were called to join in a great hunt. The rats were caught by every conceivable artifice127; and, once taken, were instantly and ferociously128 smothered129 in onions; the corpses130 were then decently laid out on clean china dishes, and straightway eaten with vindictive131 relish132 by the people of Looe. Never was any invention for destroying rats so complete and so successful as this! Every man, woman, and child, who could eat, could swear to the extirpation133 of all the rats they had eaten. The local returns of dead rats were not made by the bills of mortality, but by the bills of fare: it was getting rid of a nuisance by the unheard-of process of stomaching a nuisance! Day after day passed on, and rats disappeared by hundreds, never to return. What could all their cunning and resolution avail them now? They had resisted before, and could have resisted still, the ordinary force of dogs, ferrets, traps, sticks, stones, and guns, arrayed against them; but when to these engines of assault were added, as auxiliaries134, smothering135 onions, scalding stew-pans, hungry mouths, sharp teeth, good digestions136, and the gastric137 juice, what could they do but give in? Swift and sure was the destruction that now overwhelmed them — everybody who wanted a dinner had a strong personal interest in hunting them down to the very last. In a short space of time the island was cleared of the usurpers. Cheeses remained entire: ricks rose uninjured. And this is the true story of how the people of Looe got rid of the rats!
It will not much surprise any reader who has been good-natured enough to peruse138 the preceding pages with some attention, to hear that we idly delayed the day of departure from the pleasant fishing-town on the south coast, which was now the place of our sojourn139. The smiles of our fair chambermaid and the cookery of our excellent hostess, addressed us in Siren tones of allurement140 which we had not the virtue to resist. Then, it was difficult to leave unexplored any of the numerous walks in the neighbourhood — all delightfully141 varied142 in character, and each possessing its own attractive point of view. Even when we had made our determination and fixed143 our farewell day, a great boat-race and a great tea-drinking, which everybody declared was something that everybody else ought to see, interfered144 to detain us. We delayed yet once more, to partake in the festivities, and found that they supplied us with all the necessary resolution to quit Looe which we had hitherto wanted. We had remained to take part in a social failure on a very large scale.
As, in addition to the boat-race, there was to be a bazaar145 on the beach; and as fine weather was therefore an essential requisite146 on the occasion, it is scarcely necessary to premise147 that we had an unusually large quantity of rain. In the forenoon, however, the sun shone with treacherous148 brilliancy; and all the women in the neighbourhood fluttered out in his beams, gay as butterflies. What dazzling gowns, what flaring149 parasols, what joyous150 cavalcades151 on cart-horses, did we see on the road that led to the town! What a mixture of excitement, confusion, anxiety, and importance, possessed152 everybody! What frolic and felicity attended the popular gatherings153 on the beach, until the fatal moment when the gun fired for the first race! Then, as if at that signal, the clouds began to muster154 in ominous155 blackness; the deceitful sunlight disappeared; the rain came down for the day — a steady, noiseless, malicious156 rain, that at once forbade all hope of clear weather. Dire105 was the discomfiture157 of the poor ladies of Looe. They ran hither and thither158 for shelter, in lank159 wet muslin and under dripping parasols, displaying, in the lamentable160 emergency of the moment, all sorts of interior contrivances for expanding around them the exterior161 magnificence of their gowns, which we never ought to have seen. Deserted162 were the stalls of the bazaar for the parlours of the alehouses; unapplauded and unobserved, strained at the oar117 the stout rowers in the boat-race. Everybody ran to cover, except some seafaring men who cared nothing for weather, some inveterate163 loungers who would wander up and down in spite of the rain, and three unhappy German musicians, who had been caught on their travels, and pinned up tight against the outer wall of a house, in a sort of cage of canvas, boards, and evergreens164, which hid every part of them but their heads and shoulders. Nobody interfered to release these unfortunates. There they sat, hemmed165 in all round by dripping leaves, blowing grimly and incessantly through instruments of brass166. If the reader can imagine the effect of three phlegmatic167 men with long bottle noses, looking out of a circle of green bushes, and playing waltzes unintermittingly on long horns, in a heavy shower — he will be able to form a tolerably correct estimate of the large extra proportion of gloom which the German musicians succeeded in infusing into the disastrous proceedings168 of the day.
The tea-drinking was rather more successful. The room in which it was held was filled to the corners, and exhaled169 such an odour of wet garments and bread and butter (to say nothing of an incessant92 clatter170 of china and bawling171 of voices) that we found ourselves, as uninitiated strangers, unequal to the task of remaining in it to witness the proceedings. Descending172 the steps which led into the street from the door — to the great confusion of a string of smartly dressed ladies who encountered us, rushing up with steaming teakettles and craggy lumps of plumcake — we left the inhabitants to conclude their festivities by themselves, and went out to take a farewell walk on the cliffs of Looe.
We ascended173 the heights to the westward174, losing sight of the town among the trees as we went; and then, walking in a southerly direction through some cornfields, approached within a few hundred yards of the edge of the cliffs, and looked out on the sea. The sky had partially175 cleared, and the rain had ceased; but huge fantastic masses of cloud, tinged176 with lurid177 copper-colour by the setting sun, still towered afar off over the horizon, and were reflected in a deeper hue178 on the calm surface of the sea, with a perfectness and grandeur179 that I never remember to have witnessed before. Not a ship was in sight; but out on the extreme line of the wilderness180 of grey waters there shone one red, fiery181 spark — the beacon182 of the Eddystone Lighthouse. Before us, the green fields of Looe Island rose high out of the ocean — here, partaking the red light on the clouds; there, half lost in cold shadow. Closer yet, on the mainland, a few cattle were feeding quietly on a long strip of meadow bordering the edge of the cliff; and, now and then, a gull183 soared up from the sea, and wheeled screaming over our heads. The faint sound of the small shore-waves (invisible to us in the position we occupied) beating dull and at long intervals184 on the beach, augmented185 the dreary186 solemnity of the evening prospect. Light, shade, and colour, were all before us, arranged in the grandest combinations, and expressed by the simplest forms. If Michael Angelo had painted landscape, he might have represented such a scene as we now beheld.
This was our last excursion at Looe. The next morning we were again on the road, walking inland on our way to the town of Liskeard.
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