Another day a Classic Dancer came over here to dance for me. She danced the Spring Song on the turf, with the tall cypress hedges as a background; and it really was a very pretty sight. But some of the spectators thought less about her dancing than her dress. And their verdict was:--“Her garments had not got no substance in them.” Not long ago one of the old inhabitants was talking to me about the War; and this was how it struck him:--“It be a terrible thing, this war: proper terrible it be. I never knowed bacon such a price.” Another one looked at it from another point of view:--“What be the sense of their contendin’? Why, us in Lustleigh don’t wage war on they in Bovey, and wherefore should the nations fight?” In talking to a very old inhabitant, I spoke of something out on Dartmoor, and he replied:--“Well, Dartymoor be a place I never were at.” I remarked that it was within a walk, and he replied:--“I never had no occasion to go there.” Life is never very strenuous here. People always fancy there is time to spare--“the days be long.” That answers to the Spanish _mañana_--to-morrow--or the Arabic _ba‘d bukra_--the day after to-morrow--and is almost worthy of Theodore and Luke. In the _Sayings of the Fathers_ Palladius relates that they were discontented with their dwelling, and in the winter they said they would move in the summer, and in the summer they said they would move in the winter; and they went on saying that for the space of fifty years; and they both died in that place. There was a project for a railway here as soon as the main-line had reached Newton. My grandfather writes to my father on 25 April 1847:--“The surveyors have been from Newton to Okehampton, marking out a new line. They seem to be guided by the stream, and (if it takes place) they will go right up the meadows under here.... I cannot fancy it will take place, for people are a little cooled down, and not so mad for speculation. Had it been projected some little time ago, no doubt it would have taken.” The project came to nothing then, but some years afterwards it was revived; and he writes on 30 January 1861:--“I find there was a meeting at Moreton yesterday about this line of railway from Newton to Okehampton, and a meeting to-day at Newton, and at Okehampton on Saturday.”