[18] May 1870 and June 1872.
[19] See "Fors Clavigera," Letter LXXXII.
[20] St. Theodore had a contest with a Dragon, and his horse gave considerable help, trampling it down with its four feet. The Saint spoke first to the horse as to a man—"Oh thou horse of Christ comfort thee, be strong like a man, and come that we may conquer the contrary enemy." See "Fors," vol. vii. also "St. Mark's Rest,"
[21] A pleasant story that a friend sent me from France. The mouse often came into their sitting-room and actually sang to them, the notes being a little like a canary's.—S. B.
[22] An Oxford Lecture. Nineteenth Century, January, 1878.
[23] Decorative art of his plumage.—J. R.
[24] "May I ask you to correct a false impression which any of your readers who still care to know my opinions would receive from the reference to Dickens in your kind notice of my letters to Miss Beever....I have not the letters here, and forget what I said about my Pickwick's not amusing me when I was ill, but it always does, to this hour, when I am well; though I have known it by heart, pretty nearly all, since it came out; and I love Dickens with every bit of my heart, and sympathize in everything he thought or tried to do, except in his effort to make more money by readings which killed him." Letter to "Daily Telegraph," Sandgate, January 4, 1888.
[25] "Proserpina,"
[26] Part 5.
[27] One of our younger servants had gone on to the frozen lake; the ice gave way, and she was drowned.—S. B.