Borrow, we may be sure, would have repudiated 'Dumpling Green' if he could.

The name had a humorous suggestion.

To this day they call boys from Norfolk 'Norfolk Dumplings' in the neighbouring shires.

But East Dereham was something to be proud of.

In it had died the writer who, through the greater part of Borrow's life, remained the favourite poet of that half of England which professed the Evangelical creed in which Borrow was brought up.