July 17 Postcards and stamps | | 9 pencil | | 1 Warwick Castle | 2 | - cider at the _Bear and Baculus_ | | (which Mifflin _would_ call the | | _Bear and Bacillus) _ | | 2½ _Bowling Green Inn, _bed and | | breakfast | 3 | 2 Puncture | 1 | - Lunch, Kenilworth | 1 | 6 Kenilworth Castle | | 6 Postcards | | 4 Lemonade, Coventry | | 4 Cider | | 2½ Supper, Tamworth, _The Castle Hotel_ | 2 | 1 ____ _____ _____ | 16 | 5½ July 18 Johnson house, Lichfield | | 3 cider at _The Three Crowns_ | | 4 postcard and shave | | 4 _The King's Head_, bed and breakfast | 3 | 7 cider | | 2 tip on road[A] | | 1½ lunch, Uttoxeter | 1 | 3 cider, Ashbourne, _The Green | | Man_ | | 3 landlord's drink, Ashbourne[B] | | 1 supper, _Newhaven House_, | 1 | - lemonade, Buxton | | 3 ____ _____ _____ TOTAL £1 4 1 ($5.78) [Footnote A: As far as I can remember, this was a gratuity to a rather tarnished subject who directed us at a fork in the road, near a railway crossing.] [Footnote B: This was a copper well lavished; for the publican, a ventripotent person with a liquid and glamorous brown eye, told us excellent gossip about Dr. Johnson and George Eliot, both heroes in that neighbourhood. "Yes," we said, "that man Eliot was a great writer," and he agreed.]