tes a conspiracy by which young
Tighe was led into the thick of a fight and killed.

[77] #Pusey horn#: the Pusey family hold their estate not by
a title deed, but by a horn, given, it is said, to William
Pecote (perhaps an ancestor of the Puseys) by Canute, a Danish
king of England in the eleventh century. The horn bears the
following inscription: "I, King Canute, give William Pecote
this horn to hold by thy land."

[78] #Freeholders#: landowners.

[79] #Moated grange#: a farm or estate surrounded by a broad
deep ditch for defence in old times.

[80] #Marianas#: Mariana, a beautiful woman, one of the most
lovable of Shakespeare's characters. See "Measure for
Measure."

Will you look for them under your own noses, or will you not? Well,
well, I've done what I can to make you, and if you will go gadding
over half Europe now every holiday, I can't help it. I was born and
bred a west-countryman,[81] thank God! a Wessex man, a citizen of the
noblest Saxon kingdom of Wessex, a regular "Angular Saxon,"[82] the
very soul of me "adscriptus glebae."[83] There's nothing like the old
country-side for me, and no music like the twang of the real old Saxon
tongue, as one gets it fresh from the veritable chaw[84] in the White
Horse Vale; and I say with "Gaarge Ridler," the old west-country
yeoman,

"Throo aall the waarld owld Gaarge would bwoast,
Commend me to merry owld England mwoast;
While vools[85] gwoes prating vur and nigh,
We stwops at whum,[86] my dog and I."[A]

[A] For this old song see Hughes's "Scouring of the White
Horse."

[81] #West-countryman#: a west of England man.

[82] #Angular Saxon#: a play on the words _Anglo-Saxon_.

[83] #Adscriptus glebae#: attached to the soil.

[84] #Chaw#: "chaw bacon," a nickname for an English peasant.

[85] #Vools#: fools.

[86] #Whum#: home.

SQUIRE BROWN AND HIS HOUSEHOLD.

Here at any rate lived and stopped at home Squire Brown, J. P.[87] for
the county of Berks, in a village near the foot of the White Horse
range. And here he dealt out justice and mercy in a rough way, and
brought up sons and daughters, and hunted the fox, and grumbled at the
badness of the roads and the times. And his wife dealt out stockings,
and calico[88] shirts, and smock frocks,[89] and comforting drinks to
the old folks with the "rheumatiz," and good counsel to all; and kept
the coal and clothes