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Excerpt from Some Old Wells Trees and Travel-Tracks of Wordsworth's Parish
Wayside wells that invited man and beast to quench their thirst were prized by the people of the great days of the Church's rise. Every such fount was furnished with a chained metal drinking-cup; and any vagabond polluting either cup or water, against our crown and dignity, was liable to punishment prompt and rigourous.
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