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420. [24] _The French Prisoners of Norman Cross: A Tale_, by the Rev.Arthur Brown, Rector of Catfield, Norfolk.
London: Hodder Brothers, 18 New Bridge Street, E.C., 1895.
Mr.Brown remarks that there were sixteen casernes, whereas Borrow says in _Lavengro_ that there were five or six. 'They looked,' he says, 'from outside exactly like a vast congeries of large, high carpenter's shops, with roofs of glaring red tiles, and surrounded by wooden palisades, very lofty and of prodigious strength.' [25] The _Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society_ teaches me that the name should be spelt Petulengro. [26] See _In Gipsy Tents_ by Francis Hindes Groome, p.17.The late Queen herself writes (_More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands_, Smith, Elder and Co., 1884, p.
370), under the date Monday, August 26th: 'At half-past three started with Beatrice, Leopold, and the Duchess in the landau and four, the Duke, Lady Ely, General Ponsonby, and Mr.Yorke going in the second carriage, and Lord Haddington riding the whole way.
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