I went to bed some time before the family. The door was shut between us, and they had a bright fire, which I could not see; but the light it sent up among the varnished rafters and beams, which crossed each other in almost as intricate and fantastic a manner as I have seen the under-boughs of a large beech-tree withered by the depth of the shade above, produced the most beautiful effect that can be conceived. It was like what I should suppose an underground cave or temple to be, with a dripping or moist roof, and the moonlight entering in upon it by some means or other, and yet the colours were more like melted gems. I lay looking up till the light of the fire faded away, and the man and his wife and child had crept into their bed at the other end of the room. I did not sleep much, but passed a comfortable night, for my bed, though hard, was warm and clean: the unusualness of my situation prevented me from sleeping. I could hear the waves beat against the shore of the lake; a little "syke" close to the door made a much louder noise; and when I sate up in my bed I could see the lake through an open window-place at the bed's head. Add to this, it rained all night. I was less occupied by remembrance of the Trossachs, beautiful as they were, than the vision of the Highland hut, which I could not get out of my head. I thought of the Fairyland of Spenser, and what I had read in romance at other times, and then, what a feast would it be for a London pantomime-maker, could he but transplant it to Drury Lane, with all its beautiful colours! END OF VOL. I _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_. Transcriber's Note Footnotes have been moved below the paragraph to which they relate. Both Footnote 30 on Page 50 and Footnote 39 on Page 65 refer to two items rather than one. I have repeated these footnotes below their respective paragraphs in order to accommodate the repetition. "=" is used in the text to indicate that a fancy font was used. Inconsistencies have been retained in spelling, hyphenation, formatting, punctuation, and grammar, except where indicated in the list below: - Comma added after "wife" on Page viii - Period removed after "III" on Page ix - Comma removed after "Mrs." on Page xiv - Comma changed to a period after "Ed" on Page 21 - Period added after "us" on Page 23 - Period added after "morning" on Page 27 - "pen-knive" changed to "pen-knife" on Page 117 - "w th" changed to "with" on Page 134 - Footnote number was missing and has been added for Footnote 77 - Footnote anchor added to "glade" on Page 229 - "he" changed to "the" on Page 251 - Apostrophe changed to a comma after "biggin" on Page 253 End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. I (of 2), by Dorothy Wordsworth