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remarkable that I have personally known was this typical east-coaster, whose name was Dan Gunby. It was in September, 1874, when I was a house master at Uppingham, under the ever-famous Edward Thring, that my dear friend, R. L. Nettleship, then a fellow of Balliol, came to our house at Halton, and after a day or two there, we passed by Burgh over the marsh to Skegness, eleven miles off.

Southend, Boston.

We were making for the old thatched house by the Roman bank, for this belonged to our family, and here, with one old woman to "do" for us, and with the few supplies we had