Nae Doot,' He Says, 'there Are Many Things In It
You'll Disapprove Of, But Not Everything Perhaps, And I'd Like
Ye To Go.'"
I was a little sorry for him next day when we had an
ordination service, very long, complicated, and, I should
imagine, exceedingly difficult to follow by a wild
Presbyterian from the hills.
He probably disapproved of most
of it, but I greatly admired him for refusing to see anything
more of the cathedral than the outside on the first day. His
method was better than that of an American (from Indiana, he
told me) I met the following day at the hotel. He gave two
hours and a half, including attendance at the morning service,
to the cathedral, inside and out, then rushed off for an hour
at Stonehenge, fourteen miles away, on a hired bicycle. I
advised him to take another day - I did not want to frighten
him by saying a week - and he replied that that would make him
miss Winchester. After cycling back from Stonehenge he would
catch a train to Winchester and get there in time to have some
minutes in the cathedral before the doors closed. He was due
in London next morning. He had already missed Durham
Cathedral in the north through getting interested in and
wasting too much time over some place when he was going there.
Again, he had missed Exeter Cathedral in the south, and it
would be a little too bad to miss Winchester too!
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