... A later generation than the old wife has been known to pour out a libation of good red port to “whatever gods may be,” during the exhilaration which followed reaching the highest point of our county – the cairn on Kinderlow. There was folk lore in this too. The climbers were of a hard, sceptical kind, believing in nothing, not even in themselves, yet they wasted good wine on this ritual. There on the top, against the sky, the present day world had dropped away and there was a feeling of being surrounded by they know not what elemental forces moulding the timeworn world.
Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal, 30th April 1920.
Lovely, lyrical writing; if only the newspapers of today turned out copy like that.
Absolutely agree...formed that opinion before reading your comment. Words of a different breed and time