{140} Borrow clean omits his two years (1816-18) at Norwich Grammar School, under Edward Valpy (1764-1832), headmaster 1810-29. This was probably because, horsed on James Martineau's back, he was flogged for running away to turn smuggler or freebooter. Sir James Brooke was another schoolfellow. {142} The Rev. Thomas D'Eterville, a Norman _emigre_. {146} The Yare. {147} Earlham Hall. {148} Joseph John Gurney (1788-1847), Quaker banker of Norwich, and philanthropist, a brother of Mrs. Fry. See A. J. C. Hare's _The Gurneys of Earlham_ (2 vols., 1895). {152} Tombland Fair, on Norwich Castle Hill, the day before Good Friday. {154} _Cf._ Introduction, p. xxv. {156} Snake-charmer. {157} Monschold (pron. _Muzzle_) Heath, near Norwich. {158} Better _Tarno Tikno_, little baby. {161} _Petulengro_, farrier, the esoteric Romany name of the Smith family. It is derived from the Modern Greek _petalon_, horse-shoe, if that, indeed, is not borrowed from the Romany. {162a} Truth, brother. {162b} Book. {162c} Hill. {163a} Passing bad money. {163b} Gypsies. {163c} Better _gaujoes_, non-Gypsies or Gentiles. {164a} Yes. {164b} Magistrate of the town. {165a} Child. {165b} In the town, telling fortunes. {166a} House. {166b} Going. {169a} In Vol. i. p. 320 of _Etymologicon Universale_ (3 vols., 1822- 25), by the Rev. Walter Whiter (1758-1832), from 1797 rector of Hardingham, near Wymondham, occurs this suggestion: "It will perhaps be discovered by some future inquirer that from a horde of vagrant _Gipseys_ once issued that band of sturdy robbers, the companions of Romulus and of Remus, who laid the foundations of the _Eternal City_ on the banks of the Tibur." This sounds truly Borrovian; and scattered through the amazing _Etymologicon_ are twenty-six Romany words, very correctly spelt, which I used to think Whiter must have learnt from George Borrow. But there are words that Borrow does not seem to have known--_poshe_, near; _kam_, sun; _ria_, sir (vocative), and _petalles_, horse-shoe (accusative). Whiter appears to have known Romany better than Borrow. Borrow certainly meant to write a good deal about Whiter, for in a letter to John Murray of 1st December 1842 he sketches _Lavengro_: "Capital subject--early life; studies and adventures; some account of my father, William Taylor, Whiter, Big Ben, etc. etc." (Knapp, ii. 5). But he barely mentions Whiter in chap. xxiv. of _Lavengro_. In the _Gypsy Lore Journal_ (i. 1888, pp. 102-4) I had an article on Whiter. That on Whiter by Mr. Courtney, in vol. lxi. of the _Dictionary of National Biography_ (1900), shows that he was writing on the Gypsy language in 1800 and 1811. {169b} Fighter. {170a} Husband. {170b} Gentleman. {170c} London. {170d} Song. {178} Borrow's _Wild Wales_ gives a full account of his Welsh studies at this period. {180} He was articled on 30th March 1819 to Messrs. Simpson & Rackham solicitors, for five years. {198} Klopstock. (B.)