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Show HOW SCOTT WAS CAUGHT. Unfortunate Incident Disclosed Great Novelist's Secret. Wordsworth, though he had the appetite ap-petite of a healthy mountaineer, drank neither wine nor malt liquors, and this abstinence Sir Walter Scott seems to have found rather trying while he was the English poet's guest at Rydal Mount. But there are many good wayside inns in the lake country, and into one of these Sir Walter would slip during his daily- constitutional constitu-tional walk, and there drink a pin; 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 was one of the kindest and most courteous of men, and he did not wish his brother poet to know that the water and tea served at his table were not wholly satisfying to the Laird of Abbotsford. But one day while out together they were caught in a storm and took shelter in the inn where the Scotch poet obtained his pint of "heavy wet." As a result, no sooner did the landlord set eyes on him than he greeted him with the query: "Well, Sir Walter, hz ye ccme for your pot o' ale?" V |