. Three weeks in the British Isles . sting the babyon her arm. Too late. The picture is taken amidthe jeers of her scoffing but envious neighbors. Look ow yer haprons anging down, criesone woman, as though that were her most promi-nent violation of the law of correct dress. White Hart Inn is restored, and in it The SamWeller Club meets at stated intervals to ponderthe wisdom of that philosopher. In St. Saviors Church we encounter an old verger. At our first question hescurries to cover and emerges in full until then does he open his mouth. Beingproperly robed, h
. Three weeks in the British Isles . sting the babyon her arm. Too late. The picture is taken amidthe jeers of her scoffing but envious neighbors. Look ow yer haprons anging down, criesone woman, as though that were her most promi-nent violation of the law of correct dress. White Hart Inn is restored, and in it The SamWeller Club meets at stated intervals to ponderthe wisdom of that philosopher. In St. Saviors Church we encounter an old verger. At our first question hescurries to cover and emerges in full until then does he open his mouth. Beingproperly robed, he makes up for lost time bytelling us more than we have time to listen is in perfect agony as we flit from tomb totomb and positively refuse to hear him recite thepoetic epitaphs. John Harvard was baptized in this church, andfrom the font has grown a tentacle which hasclung to Harvard University ever since. Thechurch has been helped by generous donationsfrom alumni at various times. St. Swithin was its founder. He is buried in. THE GEORGE INN London Sights 37 Winchester, and you will hear of the post-mortemrow he made about it when we reach that town. London is too crowded with incidents to admitof its telling at this point, while Winchester prob-ably will need it. John Gowers tomb is in St. Saviors. He wasthe father of English poetry, Chaucer havingbeen his pupil. From a rather feeble start hisdescendants are now as sands of the sea. A slab in the floor marks the last resting placeof Edmond Shakespeare. William paid for this,as for a good many of his brothers previousresting places, from money taken in at the boxoffice of the Globe Theater, which was aboutthree hundred yards from the church. By his side lie Fletcher (1625) and Massinger(1639). It is small wonder that the old vergeris proud of his exhibits. Bunhill Fields Burying Ground is peopledwith a different set. There are 120,000 non-conformists buried there. Watts is there, andDaniel Defoe. The monument of the latt
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