Wednesday 28 December 2011

Ongar: An extract from the Commonplace Book of Edward Reeve c1860


It is said of Theodore Hook, when upon a visit, before breakfast was asked, the usual question “How he slept” his answer was immediately “With his eyes shut”.

And after a dinner party upon his return home he could not find his Hat, and began singing to the servants:
“Shepherds I have lost my Hat
Can you tell me, where it’s stray’d”.

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