The Cruise of the Land-Yacht Wanderer - Gordon Stables

Excerpt: ...it looks charming, and the braeland itself is a cloudland of green. Ayton is placed in a lovely valley on the River Eye, which goes wimpling and winding round it. The town itself is pretty, rural, quaint, and quiet. I do wonder if it is a health resort or not, or whether turtle-doves go there to spend the honeymoon. If they do not they ought to. The landlord of the hotel where I put my horses, like myself, came from the far north; he soon found me a stand for the Wanderer, a quiet corner in a farmer