The cream of curiosity, being an account of certain historical and literary manuscripts of the XVIIth, XVIIIth & XIXth centuries . illage ofIckleford in the county of Hertford, and to an innthere which otherwise you would miss. For itstands foolishly back from the highway and hidesbehind a forge as if ashamed to ask for custom ofwayfaring men. They call it The Old George andwould want to show you the long refectory table atwhich the third of our Hanover kings gave a displayof his power of gormandizing. But I should carryyou off to the seventeenth-century parlour, whereonce upon a time the Cava
The cream of curiosity, being an account of certain historical and literary manuscripts of the XVIIth, XVIIIth & XIXth centuries . illage ofIckleford in the county of Hertford, and to an innthere which otherwise you would miss. For itstands foolishly back from the highway and hidesbehind a forge as if ashamed to ask for custom ofwayfaring men. They call it The Old George andwould want to show you the long refectory table atwhich the third of our Hanover kings gave a displayof his power of gormandizing. But I should carryyou off to the seventeenth-century parlour, whereonce upon a time the Cavaliers came in, dusty andthirsty from the turmoils of civil war, to drinkconfusion to the Roundheads, and (hammering outa tune on the oaken benches) to sing outrageousballads of Old Noll. When your thirst was satisfied, I should fall toshowing you the sights, to wit: the churlish clockwhich points and has pointed to closing time formore than a dozen years, the sumptuously boundvolumes of Burns poetry on an upper shelf, whichon a near inspection becomes a biscuit box, a broad-sheet entitled The Landlords Welcome to his Guests,. .lOXAS ,frni; unsT E;cc; who i:vkii an umbri-ixa.) Rise and Fall of the Umbrella 375 in which one of the lines, My chairs are easy, firesare bright, has been queried most unkindly, andabove all the great chimney ( large enough \ as thelandlord says, to turn a pony round ) where onceDick Turpin hid from a hue and cry. All these lively things would I show you and stillmore, but alas! reader, the best is no longer wish I could put the clock right back and introduceyou to Humphry Gilliat, gentleman-adventurer andpedlar of umbrellas, whom I met there ten yearsago. I remember it was a scorching hot day inJuly, 1909, when I came, impatient for my lunch,into this parlour and called out lustily to be answer. I called again and again but my voiceseemed to echo through an empty house. Aftersome time I heard a rustling moveme
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