[136] An escapade with pigs occurs in Tennyson’s poem, “Walking to the Mail.”
[137] Pembroke.
[138] Welcombe, to which Mr. Hawker became curate in 1850, and which he continued to serve until his death. There is an allusion to Welcombe church on p. [21].
[139] Hawker writes in one of his letters: “And now enough of myself. Solitude makes men self-praisers, and a Bemööster Herr—as the Germans call lonely readers—a mossy vicar likes to talk about his own importance.”
[141] A similar sacrilege occurs in Hawker’s poem, “A Legend of the Hive.”
[143] An echo from Shakespeare—
“... the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”