[75] It was a trick of Hawker’s style to end a sentence with this or similar adverbs. Instances occur on pp. [17] and [172]. Elsewhere he writes: “As the lightning leaps from the dark cloud suddenly.” Little points like this suggest the real authorship of Daniel Gumb’s diary.
[76] Numbers xxiv. 21, “And he (Balaam) looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwelling-place, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.”
[77] From All the Year Round, vol. xvi. pp. 247-249. 1866. See Appendix [E].
[79] Compare Hawker’s poem, “Sir Beville—the Gate Song of Stowe.” See also Appendix [Ea].
[80] It is said locally that Antony’s stocking would hold a peck of wheat.
[81] C. S. Gilbert in his “History of Cornwall.”
“Ride! ride! with red spur, there is death in delay,
’Tis a race for dear life with the devil;
If dark Cromwell prevail, and the king must give way,
This earth is no place for Sir Beville.”
The Gate Song of Stowe.