{"product_id":"2940149537822","title":"Punch, or the London Charavari, Volume 93, October 8, 1887 (Illustrated)","description":"\"Now, Lake-men, claim your right of way, and see the business done,\u003cbr\u003eCome with your crowbar, spade, and pick;—and sure the battle's won,\u003cbr\u003eFor bolts and bars show Spedding's race that you don't care a fig,\u003cbr\u003eAnd prove that right's no match for might when rallied round Latrigg.\"\u003cbr\u003eSo shouted Routh-Fitzpatrick, and Lake-men with a cheer,\u003cbr\u003eTo Fawe Park Gates from Keswick's peaceful slopes were drawing near,\u003cbr\u003eWhen high upon the topmost wall as if to break the spell,\u003cbr\u003eThere uprose the Solicitor of Mrs. Spencer Bell.\u003cbr\u003eHe spoke and as his voice he raised his arms he waved around,\u003cbr\u003e\"Beware,\" he cried, \"what you're about, for this is private ground.\u003cbr\u003eWith sundry pains and penalties you'll surely be repaid,\u003cbr\u003eWho dare to-day set hand to move this lawful barricade!\"\u003cbr\u003eBut Routh-Fitzpatrick heeded not his protest, nor replied;\u003cbr\u003eSo Mrs. Bell's Solicitor, he promptly stood aside,\u003cbr\u003eAnd watched the next proceedings with a disapproving frown,\u003cbr\u003eFor up went crow-bar, pick, and axe, and gate and bar went down.\u003cbr\u003eYes, 'neath the sturdy Lake-men's blows the barriers gave way,\u003cbr\u003eAnd lo! in rushed the joyous thronging crowd without delay;\u003cbr\u003eAnd some on foot, and some in drags, and some in waggons stowed,\u003cbr\u003eHeld on their way triumphantly down the disputed road.\u003cbr\u003eSo onward towards Silver Hill advanced the active host,\u003cbr\u003eAnd cleared each wire fence away, and levelled every post;\u003cbr\u003eAnd when with crowbar, pick, and axe, they'd made their purpose plain,\u003cbr\u003eTo Nichol Ending they returned in triumph once again.\u003cbr\u003eThen Secretary Jenkinson uprose and spoke a word,\u003cbr\u003eAnd said how by the sights that day his manly breast was stirred,\u003cbr\u003eAnd how that, if on Saturday as they had now begun\u003cbr\u003eThey held their own, they might regard the fight already won.\u003cbr\u003eAnd then a telegram from Mr. Plimsoll he read out,\u003cbr\u003eThe which the Lake-men greeted with a hearty answering shout;\u003cbr\u003eAnd Mrs. Bell's Solicitor retired from the field,\u003cbr\u003eBut with an ugly look that seemed to say, \"We'll never yield!\"\u003cbr\u003eAnd so commenced the fray that day, and though we know, of course,\u003cbr\u003eAs everybody tells us, there's no remedy in force,\u003cbr\u003eStill, if the Lake-men's pick and axe this matter sets at rest,\u003cbr\u003eWe must admit how ills to cure at Keswick they know best.\u003cbr\u003eBut which side wins or loses in the still impending fight,\u003cbr\u003eWhether force of public freedom, or trick of legal right,\u003cbr\u003eThe eager world on-looking may have watched a deadlier fray,\u003cbr\u003eBut none more keen in contest than the Battle of the Way!\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lost Leaf Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122383208688,"sku":"2940149537822","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149537822_p0.jpg?v=1763718547","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149537822","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}