This was not known to the Dales till the twelfth, and they would willingly have spared the knowledge then, had it been possible to spare it.
Interdicted by her master from speaking to him on the subject of the heaths, glades, and dales of her beloved Northumberland, she poured herself forth to my infant ear in descriptions of the scenes of her youth, and long narratives of the events which tradition declared to have passed amongst them.