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TO JOHNO' GROAT'S: III 81needed, and there we remained till the Fridaymorning.And that day, June I4th, having travelled inall 551 miles, we came to John o' Groat's.Our appearance there was not without somedash and comely swagger. There is a littlegrassy knoll beside the hotel, and at the veryedge of the beach, on which the House of John o'Groat is said to have stood. It was an octagonalhouse with a door in every side, so that John andhis seven brothers each entering by his owndoor at the same moment could all take theirplaces at the round table without raising anyquestion of precedence. By this admirableinvention John isfeuds that rent his family.said to have healed the bitterBut I have a notionthat ifthey felt so strongly about it as all that,the experiment may not have been so successfulas we are led to believe.The brother who enteredby the northern door, especially as this must havebeen the first, or last, door in the British Isles,would be apt to put on airs in his dealings withhim of the south-east. And I have an uncomfortablefeeling that, despite his conciliatoryattitude, John kept the north door for himself.SIEGLINDA made the site of that historic househer own. For the little knoll remains, coveredG