[George Borrow and His Circle by Clement King Shorter]@TWC D-Link bookGeorge Borrow and His Circle CHAPTER I 2/22
It was no small thing for a youth who aspired to any kind of renown to be born in the neighbourhood of the last resting-place of the author of _The Task_. Yet Borrow was not actually born in East Dereham, but a mile and a half away, at the little hamlet of Dumpling Green, in what was then a glorious wilderness of common and furze bush, but is now a quiet landscape of fields and hedges.
You will find the home in which the author of _Lavengro_ first saw the light without much difficulty.
It is a fair-sized farm-house, with a long low frontage separated from the road by a considerable strip of garden.
It suggests a prosperous yeoman class, and I have known farm-houses in East Anglia not one whit larger dignified by the name of 'hall.' Nearly opposite is a pond.
The trim hedges are a delight to us to-day, but you must cast your mind back to a century ago when they were entirely absent.
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