Show HOW SCOTT WAS CAUGHT unfortunate incident D great novelist novelists s secret wordsworth though he had the ap petite of a healthy mountaineer drank neither wine nor malt liquors ard this abstinence sir walter scott seems to have found rather trying while he was the english poet poets s guest at rydal mount but there are many good wayside inns in the lake lakee country and into one of these there sir walter would slip during his daily cons titu lional walk and there drink a pint of honest malt liquor it Is needless to say that when he and wordsworth strolled out together he would pass the inn with a dry throat for sir walter alter vas mas one of the kindest and most courteous of men and he did not wish his brother poet to know that them the water and tea served at his table were not wholly satisfying to the laird of Ab botsford but one day while out together they were caught ia in a storm and took shelter in the inn where the scotch poet obtained his pint of heavy wet met As a result no sooner did the landlord set eyes on him than he greeted him with the query well sir walter ha ye aeme for your pot 0 ale |