Grimsey

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Now Eyjolf spoke to the oarsmen and told them to row hard, and not to let Aron come back to Grimsey that day, and not for many a day if they could help it.

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Have a glass, my man; and then we must go in the punt to Grimsey and get the Tallingtons out.

Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870

But never, in the many times he had been to and fro, had he so thoroughly realised how rough and awkward was the track, and how long it took to get to Grimsey farm.

Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870

The boys parted, with the promise that Tom was to come over from Grimsey to breakfast the next morning but one, well provided with lunch; that in the interim Dick was to arrange with Hickathrift about his punt, and that then they were to have a thoroughly good long exploring day, right into some of the mysterious parts of the fen, Dick's first journey being so much scouting ready for the following day's advance.

Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870

Dick wanted no second invitation, and the decoy-man sent the punt along rapidly, and by following one of the lanes of water pursued a devious course toward Grimsey, whose blackened ruins now began to come into sight.

Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870

To some people a walk of two miles through the fen in the stormy darkness of the wintry night would have seemed fraught with danger, the more so that it was along no high-road, but merely a rugged track made by the horses and tumbrils in use at the Toft and at Tallington's Fen farm, Grimsey, a track often quite impassable after heavy rains.

Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870

"I tell you there was a bad fire at Grimsey last night!"

Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870

Two mile to my plaace from here and two mile from here to Grimsey, mak's four mile.

Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870

Long before Farmer Tallington had parted from the squire at the beginning of the rough track which led from the Priory to Grimsey, Dick and Tom were down by the water's edge waiting for Dave, who came up with

Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870