[61a] The Athenæum, 25th March 1899.
[61b] Lavengro, page 362.
[62a] Lavengro, page 362.
[62b] Lavengro, page 374.
[63a] Lavengro, pages 431–2.
[64a] Lavengro, page 451.
[64b] Mr Watts-Dunton in a review of Dr Knapp’s Life of Borrow says that she “was really an East-Anglian road-girl of the finest type, known to the Boswells, and remembered not many years ago.”—Athenæum, 25th March 1899.
[66a] Mr Petulengro is made to say the “Flying Tinker.”
[66b] Dr Knapp sees in the account of Murtagh’s story of his travels Barrow’s own adventures during 1826–7, but there is no evidence in support of this theory. Another contention of Dr Knapp’s is more likely correct, viz., that the story of Finn MacCoul was that told him by Cronan the Cornish guide during the excursion to Land’s End.
[67a] It will be remembered that in The Romany Rye Borrow takes his horse to the Swan Inn at Stafford, meets his postilion friend and is introduced by him to the landlord, with the result that he arranges to act as “general superintendent of the yard,” and keep the hay and corn account. In return he and his horse are to be fed and lodged. Here Borrow encounters Francis Ardry, on his way to see the dog and lion fight at Warwick, and the man in black.