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From Paddington to Penzance / The record of a summer tramp from London to the Land's End

Chapter 74: FOOTNOTES
By Charles G. Harper
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A first-person account of a summer journey from London to the western coast, blending practical itinerary notes with evocative scene-setting and local color. The narrator describes towns, coastal views, moors, churches, and roadside personalities encountered while travelling on foot, by boat, and by bicycle, and intersperses historical and antiquarian reflections on coaching, highways, and changing travel customs. Humorous anecdotes and brief portraits of fellow wayfarers punctuate a contemplative, conversational prose, and over a hundred pen-and-ink illustrations and reproduced engravings visually accompany the observations and sketches made along the route.

FOOTNOTES

1 A recipe strongly in favour with the artistic and literary world.

2 June 11th. The apparent error arises through March 25th being at that time still occasionally considered as New Year’s Day.

3 We have been told lately that it was not Napoleon but an American orator named Adams who first applied this epithet to us. If this is true, it comes with an additional bad grace, for whatever right a Frenchman has to such a sneer, certainly no American can claim it.

4 Pindar.

5 Than satirical pamphlets.

6

Underneath
Lieth the Body of Robert
Comonly Called Bone Phillip
who died July 27th 1793
Aged 65 Years,

At whose request The following lines are here inserted.

Here lie I at the Chancel door,
 Here lie I because I’m poor
 The forther in the more you’ll pay
 Here lie I as warm as they

7 N.B.—Not responsible for pronunciation of the English language.

8 I’m afraid your rhymes, Mr. Poet, are somewhat indiscreet.

9 See how sadly the exigencies of rhyme fetter the poet: the palate and not the lip give the sense of taste.

10 Anglice, farm-yards.

11 This seems a peculiarly modern touch.

12 Fill, dear reader, these blanks à discrétion.

13 Corruption also of Phillis.