. Quiet roads and sleepy villages. ry of the Royal visit, during somealterations to the old building, a hiding-placebeneath the floor-boards was discovered, and init was a cobweb-covered Cavalier hat. A letter,too, was found in Charless writing to a sup-porter in the north probably, to be delivered atsome propitious moment that never arrived. Thestory of the discovery of the hat in its turn hasbeen forgotten in the lapse of years, but in hiswanderings that incomparable novelist word-painter, William Black, alighted upon the oraltradition, which he has casually woven into thethread of his Stran
. Quiet roads and sleepy villages. ry of the Royal visit, during somealterations to the old building, a hiding-placebeneath the floor-boards was discovered, and init was a cobweb-covered Cavalier hat. A letter,too, was found in Charless writing to a sup-porter in the north probably, to be delivered atsome propitious moment that never arrived. Thestory of the discovery of the hat in its turn hasbeen forgotten in the lapse of years, but in hiswanderings that incomparable novelist word-painter, William Black, alighted upon the oraltradition, which he has casually woven into thethread of his Strange Adventures of a Phaeton,and in that form it is naturally passed as what Count von Rosen recounted of therambling tradition narrated at the Inn of Sand-ford-on-Thames—possibly The Kings Arms —was in the main points true. The conclusionof the story as related by the novelist was inten-tionally mixed so as to mislead. The Kingshat did not find its way eventually to the British ^ Vide, Memoirs of the Martyr Manor Fa«.m, .Sam)i-(iki)
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