[5] His debate with Barnabas, on the occasion of the latter’s visit to the wounded Joseph, throws some clear light on the questions opened in Mr. Lyttel’s letter. [↑]
[6] Some ambiguity is caused in this passage by the chance of both dog and boy having the same name, as well as the same instincts. [↑]
[7] I don’t put inverted commas to all Mr. Gould’s words, having necessarily to mix up mine with them in a patchwork manner; but I don’t know anything worth telling, whatever, about—so much as a sparrow,—but what he tells me. [↑]
[8] Italics mine throughout. [↑]
[9] Nowadays the travelling is of course ‘notoriously safe’! but what shall we say of the banking? [↑]
[10] The oldest windmill on record in this country (I speak under correction) stood in this parish, and was given by Bishop Seffrid to the see of Chichester about the year 1199. The largest watermill ever constructed in Sussex was that of Mr. Catt. [↑]
FORS CLAVIGERA.
LETTER LII.
I must steadily do a little bit more autobiography in every Fors, now, or I shall never bring myself to be of age before I die—or have to stop writing,—for which last turn of temper, or fortune, my friends, without exception, (and I hope—one or two of my enemies,) are, I find, praying with what devotion is in them.